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Set your clocks ahead
one hour at 2 a.m.
this Sunday.
Local news, information and analysis
City proposes to peek at people’s garbage
New Palo Alto ordinance aims to reduce amount of
recyclable, compostable materials in trash cans
by Gennady Sheyner
alo Altans who repeatedly
throw recyclable items into
their trash bins could soon
find themselves slapped with fines
and without a garbage-collection
service.
The city is in the midst of revising its Recycling and Composting
P
Ordinance with the goal of significantly reducing the percentage
of recyclables that end up in local
garbage. On Tuesday night, staff
from the Public Works Department said the new ordinance would
likely involve an intense effort to
educate the public about recycling
and a new surcharge for some of
the city’s most egregious violators
of the new policy.
Clay Reigel, the city’s Zero Waste
supervisor, said the ordinance would
not include any punitive measures in
its first year, instead focusing exclusively on education. But in the second year, residents and businesses
that throw large volumes of paper,
plastic and other recyclable goods
into their black garbage bins will
be hit with warnings, educational
materials and, ultimately, fines.
Reigel said the penalties would
only apply to the city’s worst violators of the recycling policy — those
who ignore the warnings and continue to throw away recyclables.
They would find that their garbage
is no longer collected.
“It’s not meant to be heavy-handed,” Reigel told a gathering of about
30 residents Tuesday night. “The intent is not to make it punitive for
people making an effort to comply.
“It’s trying to focus on those
who are really egregious and who
wouldn’t do it any other way.”
Public Works staff estimated that
about 43 percent of the city’s garbage is actually recyclable and 29
percent is compostable. The goal
of the ordinance is to dramatically
reduce that percentage and to help
the city meet its goal of Zero Waste
by 2021 (sending no — or minimal
(continued on page 7)
CRIME
Trial of
accused ‘City
Hall shooter’
begins
Witnesses in trial of Otto
Emil Koloto reveal details
of July 13, 2008, homicide
by Sue Dremann and
Bay City News
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Veronica Weber
ing addresses and maps, required
for the upcoming count.
“There’s an incredible pool of capable people available right now,”
Kamenelis said.
“It’s amazing how many talented
people we hire — we have lawyers,
business executives, a lot of retired
military, and one lady here is a
Ph.D. in computer science.
“These are a lot of accomplished
folks who, for whatever reason, are
unemployed and this is the best
thing available to them.”
The census jobs are hourly and
sporadic, with no benefits. The lowest-level position, office clerk, pays
wo men — one the best friend
of a man who was gunned
down outside Palo Alto City
Hall in July 2008 and the other a
friend of the man accused of the fatal
shooting — took the witness stand
this week in Santa Clara County Superior Court.
It was the start of the trial of Otto
Emil Koloto of Gilroy. He has been
charged with the
murder of 27year-old Philip
Lacy, with an
en ha nc ement
for use of a firearm during the
commission of
a felony — robbing Lacy of his
Otto Emil Koloto expensive jewelry.
Faramarz
Maleki, who
had been friends
with Lacy since
high school in
Millbrae, said
Monday that
Lacy was enamored of the long,
gold chain and
Philip Lacy
heavy diamondencrusted crucifix that played a central role in his death.
The flashy gold chain that prominently hung down to Lacy’s abdomen
was his “pride and joy,” Maleki said.
Lacy wore the chain and cross
every day. It was valued at between
$5,000 and $10,000.
Gone fishin’
Nathan Ellisen, left, Grace Peek, center, and fellow students and volunteers from Walter Hays Elementary School prepare to cast a net at the
Baylands during a field trip in early March. The trip’s aim was to teach kids about animal life and conservation. Shiner Surf perches caught
that day will be featured in the Lucy Evans Nature Interpretative Center’s aquarium.
U.S.CENSUS
Economy creates wealth of
qualified census takers
Countdown is ticking to ‘Census Day’ April 1
by Chris
he U.S. Census-taker who
knocks on the door this spring
just might have an M.B.A., or
even a Ph.D.
Silicon Valley’s high jobless
rate has created a wealth of talent
to staff the 2010 Census, which is
T
Kenrick
now on final countdown to “Census
Day” April 1.
By that date, every U.S. resident
should have returned the 10-question form received this month.
If one hasn’t mailed back the
form, one of those ultra-qualified
census workers will be knocking on
the door.
Jim Kamenelis, a longtime Silicon
Valley IT director, is one of those
with ample qualifications. An IT
manager who was looking for work
after a failed startup, Kamenelis
was hired by the Census Bureau in
the summer of 2008 as the local office manager to help ramp-up to the
big count. He expects his job to end
this September, he said.
Kamenelis said he has tested
about 15,000 local applicants for
census jobs, which are on-againoff-again depending on tasks at
hand. He has also managed a variety of preparations, such as updat-
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CLOSE ENCOUNTER WITH
STANFORD ... Riding down Embarcadero Road last week, senior White House adviser Valerie
Jarrett said she got butterflies
in her stomach. Jarrett, a 1978
Stanford University graduate
and close friend of Michelle and
Barack Obama, said her return
to campus to deliver a lecture
recalled memories of her firstever approach to the university
as an entering freshman in 1974.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d never visited Stanford before.
It was all a mystery and a terrific
surprise.â&#x20AC;? At The Farm, Jarrett
said sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d originally planned to
study to become a physician,
like her father. But she switched
to psychology following a â&#x20AC;&#x153;close
encounter with a cadaverâ&#x20AC;? after
tagging along with a medicalstudent friend to his anatomy
class. Jarrett, who said she tutored a student with autism while
at Stanford, urged students to
commit themselves in some way
to public service and to make
the most of their time at Stanford. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve been telling everyone
these were really the best four
years of my life,â&#x20AC;? she said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I
wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t say this is as good as it
gets, but itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s pretty darn good.â&#x20AC;?
FINDING A MARKET ... Palo
Alto officials acknowledged
that last yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s experiment
with a farmers market in front
of City Hall was a bit of a dud,
with fewer than 20 people
participating in the marketâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s
community-supported agriculture (CSA) program. But the city
isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t quite ready to give up its
quest to bring more fresh produce downtown. On Monday,
the City Council will discuss
the latest proposal: a farmers
market at the newly rebuilt Lytton Plaza. Unlike last yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s
market, this one wouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t be
supported by public subsidies.
Instead, it would largely rely on
volunteer coordination, summer
interns and musicians who get
their compensation exclusively
through tips. Sherry Bijan, president of the Downtown Business
Improvement District, would
work with the volunteer market
manager and help coordinate
the project. The farmers market
would still include Capay Valley
Growers, who provided produce
for last yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s pilot program,
but city officials also hope to
invite other local farms, including Webb Ranch, Hidden Villa
and Full Circle Farms, according
to a new report. If approved,
the market would be open on
Wednesdays from 3 to 6 p.m.,
with the hours possibly expanded in the summer.
A FAMILIAR FACE ... Greg
Betts began his career in Palo
Alto as a volunteer at the local animal shelter and over the
past three decades climbed the
management ranks of the cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s
labyrinthine Community Services
Department. This week, Betts
officially took over as the departmentâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s permanent director â&#x20AC;&#x201D; a
position he has occupied on an
interim basis since June 2008.
City Manager James Keene
selected Betts after a national
search and an interview process that involved two panels
and feedback from community
stakeholders. The City Council
approved the appointment and
joined the audience in giving
the affable Betts an ovation at
its meeting Monday night. Betts
said at the meeting that he was
â&#x20AC;&#x153;awed by the talent, creativity
and artistryâ&#x20AC;? in the department
and said he felt fortunate to be
part of it.
OUTSIDER NO LONGER ... Few
Palo Alto neighborhoods are
as vigilant about local land-use
policies as College Terrace.
Over the past year, neighborhood residents have been at the
center of just about every major
land-use controversy, from the
clear-cutting of trees on California Avenue, to the new College
Terrace Centre development on
El Camino Real, and the neighborhoodâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s new permit-parking
program. Now, a key member of
the College Terrace Residents
Association will have a chance
to shape Palo Altoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s land-use
policies. The City Council voted
Monday to elect Greg Tanaka,
the associationâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s president, to
the Planning and Transportation
Commission. Tanaka earned five
votes and beat out two former
council candidates Leon Leong
(who received three votes) and
Corey Levens (one). He will fill
the seat vacated by former Commissioner Karen Holman, who
was elected to the City Council
in November. N
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Palo Alto parents in denial
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Annual student survey yields mixed picture
on healthy behavior
by Christina Kenrick
re Palo Alto parents in denial of some 30 parents in the Gunn High
about what really goes on in School Library Tuesday night.
their teenagersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; lives?
â&#x20AC;&#x153;They also were concerned that
Survey results suggest that the young people were starting at an earanswer is yes â&#x20AC;&#x201D; and no.
lier age, but they really had no data.â&#x20AC;?
Most parents know their own chilThe survey is managed by the Palo
dren quite well but overestimate the Alto Drug and Alcohol Community
involvement of other teens in alcohol Collaborative, representing a host of
and drug abuse, according to the lat- community agencies including the
est results released this week of Palo school district, Palo Alto Medical
Altoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s annual Reality Check Survey. Foundation, the police department,
the PTA and the YMCA.
People were surprised â&#x20AC;&#x201D; and
many disbelieving â&#x20AC;&#x201D; in the early
â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;If everybody thinks
days of the survey, when data showed
that a solid majority of teens do not
that everybody else
use alcohol, Beacom said.
is doing it, thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s no
But careful data screening and
amount of education
consistent results over six years
that the survey data is acor â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;just say noâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s suggest
curate, she said.
going to be effective.â&#x20AC;&#x2122;
Because peopleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s behavior is
strongly influenced by what they
â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Becky Beacom,
believe their peers to be doing, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s
health-education manager,
important for parents and teens to
Palo Alto Medical Foundation
get beyond stereotypes of â&#x20AC;&#x153;typicalâ&#x20AC;?
teenage behavior and understand
Teenagers share similar misper- the reality, she said.
ceptions.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;If everybody thinks that everybody
Most of them lead sensible lives but else is doing it, thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s no amount of
vastly overestimate the risky behavior education or â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;just say noâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s going
of their peers, the survey stated.
to be effective,â&#x20AC;? she said.
At the same time, a significant
In the case of marijuana use, for
minority â&#x20AC;&#x201D; about 19 percent â&#x20AC;&#x201D; of example, 75 percent of Paly and
high school students are regular al- Gunn students say they never use
cohol users, admitting to drinking it, yet most students assumed their
at least monthly. Between 9 and 10 peers were much heavier users.
percent of students say they drink
Forty-four percent of students
weekly or daily.
said they had never been to a party
The results of the annual Reality where alcohol was present and, of
Check â&#x20AC;&#x201D; a comprehensive web- those who had, 23 percent said they
based survey of some 5,700 Palo Alto themselves did not drink.
middle- and high-school students
On the other hand, about 10 perâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; have been remarkably consistent cent of high school students said
over six years, said Becky Beacom, they would typically take five or
a Palo Alto Medical Foundation more drinks at such a party.
health-education manager who has
â&#x20AC;&#x153;You have to keep both sides in
been involved since the early days mind,â&#x20AC;? she said.
of the project.
Survey data also consistently show
â&#x20AC;&#x153;People are underestimating the that middle school students vastly
health, the kindness, the connect- overestimate the level of drinking
edness, the good parenting in this and drug use that occurs among Palo
community,â&#x20AC;? Beacom said.
Altoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s high school students.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;Does that sound like Pollyanna?
On the whole, teenagers arenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t
Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s just the truth.â&#x20AC;?
â&#x20AC;&#x153;boozing, binge-drinking party anOn the other hand, she cautioned, imalsâ&#x20AC;? in Palo Alto, Beacom said.
real concerns remain about the miâ&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s extreme behavior, and it is
nority of Palo Alto teens who are se- not normal.â&#x20AC;?
rious abusers of alcohol and drugs.
Beacom urged parents to trust their
â&#x20AC;&#x153;The gap between whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s really own instincts and to network as much
happening and what kids think is hap- as possible with other parents when
pening is very important,â&#x20AC;? she said.
grappling with difficult questions.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;It affects abstainers, who think
â&#x20AC;&#x153;The stereotype of Palo Alto parthat theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re the odd ones out.
ents is that theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re in denial,â&#x20AC;? she
â&#x20AC;&#x153;And for the kids who are using said.
(drugs and alcohol) and in need of help,
â&#x20AC;&#x153;Some of that is true, but the
they often delay getting help because other part of that same truth is that
theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re comforted with the (false) idea parents often know when somethat theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re in good company.â&#x20AC;?
thing is wrong, and theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re told,
The annual survey was begun â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s normal.â&#x20AC;&#x2122;
when then-Superintendent Mary
â&#x20AC;&#x153;And then they start questionFrances Callan and then-Police ing their own good judgment and
Chief Pat Dwyer grew â&#x20AC;&#x153;concerned knowledge.â&#x20AC;? N
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were seeing with drug and alcohol can be reached at ckenrick@
problems,â&#x20AC;? Beacom told a gathering paweekly.com.
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LAND USE
Palo Alto comes up short
on composting options
Heated debate pits composting advocates against
aviators, conservationists or city budget
by Gennady Sheyner
P
alo Alto’s quest to keep a
composting facility within
city borders could be imperiled by expensive land and opposition from airport advocates and
conservationists, neither of whom
want the new facility on their turf,
according to a new staff analysis.
In short, there is no easy choice
for a local composting site, where
local yard and food waste from
households and businesses, along
with sewer sludge, could be turned
into energy.
City officials have struggled for
the past year to determine what to
do with the composting operation
once the city’s landfill in Byxbee
Park closes in 2012. On Monday
night, the City Council learned
that all three of the sites staff had
previously considered for a new
composting facility face significant
financial and legal barriers and are
therefore unlikely locations.
The council is scheduled to resume the composting discussion on
April 5.
One site the council had previously considered was a strip of Palo
Alto Airport land on Embarcadero
Road adjacent to the Regional Water Quality Control Plant. Last fall,
the city’s Blue Ribbon Task Force
on Composting recommended the
airport site as a possible location for
an advanced “anaerobic digestion”
facility.
But staff said Monday night that
putting a composting plant just
north of the wastewater facility
would impact the airport and require the city to sway a vociferous
group of airport supporters and the
Federal Aviation Administration,
which opposes the plan. In October, the council directed staff not to
consider sites that would impact the
airport — direction that essentially
eliminated the airport site.
The council had also asked staff
to evaluate a strip of privately owned
land along Embarcadero Way and
the northwest corner of the current
landfill site in Byxbee Park. Staff
said Monday that buying up the
needed private land would cost between $22 million and $35 million
and would likely require the use of
eminent domain. Staff concluded
the option is “extremely expensive,”
said Phil Bobel, the city’s environmental compliance manager.
The 4.7-acre site adjacent to the
wastewater plant at Byxbee Park
appears to be the most promising
site, according to the staff analysis.
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Business owners unsure
about county health plan
Hundreds of Palo Alto businesses are small enough
to qualify, Chamber head estimates
by Martin Sanchez
for a cheaper plan when his original plan’s costs peaked. He said he
wants to do “a lot of research” before forming an opinion on Healthy
Workers. But, he said, “Whatever
they’re going to do is better than
what it is now.”
Under the plan, which debuted last
week, employers pay a $150 monthly
premium and employees pay a $75
monthly premium. These premiums
are roughly half the cost of other
comparable plans, Meacham said.
Some business owners already
provide health insurance to their
employees. Jeff Selzer, who runs
Palo Alto Bicycles on University
Avenue, said his current plan’s premiums have increased by 12 to 20
percent per year in recent years.
If he did not already offer insurance and adopted Healthy Workers,
some of his employees would not
qualify due to earning higher than
the county plan’s maximum.
Gillian Robinson, who co-owns
the ZombieRunner athletic shop
and café on California Avenue,
noted Healthy Workers’ monthly
premium is cheaper than ZombieRunner’s current plan’s.
“The tough part is finding everything that’s out there. ... I have a lot
to do every day, and if it would require a lot of work for (only) some
savings, I don’t know,” she said.
Robinson said she might look into
Healthy Workers when she hires
new employees.
But Meacham clarified Thurs-
Recycle
The tag system would only apply
to those whose garbage consists of
more than 10 percent recyclables,
Reigel said.
“One banana peel, Coke can or
newspaper in the garbage will not
trigger anything,” Reigel said. “The
expectation is that there will not be
perfect compliance.”
Several residents said Tuesday
they were concerned about the new
proposal, particularly the punitive
measures in the second year. Doug
Moran said his garbage bins often
include trash that was placed there
by construction workers working at
a site near his Barron Park house.
Bob Moss, meanwhile, wondered
what exactly constitutes an “egregious” violation. A garbage collector could, for example, lift the
lid, see a few sheets of paper in the
garbage bin and conclude that the
resident is flouting the law. But the
paper could have food product such
as jelly smeared on the other side,
which would make it ineligible for
recycling.
Reigel said residents who disagree with their notices would have
the opportunity to call the city and
work things out before any fines are
issued.
Rene Eyerly, Palo Alto’s solid-waste
(continued from page 3)
— waste to landfills by 2021).
The ordinance revision, which
is modeled on similar laws in Seattle, San Francisco and Portland,
would take effect in July. In the first
year, the city would send residents
recycling guides, hold community
meetings on recycling and update
the city’s website to include all the
pertinent recycling information.
Meanwhile, the city’s garbage collector, GreenWaste, would be peeking in local garbage bins to identify
who is throwing away large quantities of recyclable materials. Those
who do will find a yellow tag on
their garbage can, identifying the
problem and providing additional
information about recycling.
In the second year, violators
would be identified with red tags
on their trash cans and given a
few weeks to correct the problem.
Those who don’t shape up will find
a surcharge on their bills. If they
continue to trash their recyclables,
their garbage would no longer be
collected, according to the tentative proposal.
Census
manager, said the city also plans to
unveil new programs in the next year
or so to make it easier for residents
to reduce their waste. This includes
picking up residents’ food scraps and
other compostable materials — a service the city currently only offers to
commercial customers.
“We got a lot of feedback from the
community that this is important for
a lot of people,” Eyerly said. “We’re
working as quickly as possible to
provide that service and considering
the most economic way to do so.”
The city also plans to start offering residents smaller trash bins in
the next few months to encourage
less garbage disposal and more recycling, Eyerly said.
But some participants in Tuesday’s meeting remained skeptical.
One resident asked what problem
the city is trying to solve with the
new enforcement measure. Another
one characterized the city’s effort
to target non-recyclers as “garbage
Gestapo.”
Moss also questioned the city’s
use of the term “zero waste” to describe its ongoing effort to encourage recycling. Even with stringent
new regulations, Palo Alto will
never be able to eradicate all the
garbage and reach “zero waste,”
he said.
Staff had estimated that about
25 percent of the current garbage
consists of items that cannot be
recycled or composted — a category the city has characterized as
“problem materials.” This includes
objects that are too soiled or contaminated to go anywhere but the
black bins, as well as materials such
as Styrofoam, which are too light
and bulky to be recycled in a costeffective manner.
“You will never have zero waste,”
Moss told staff Tuesday night. “If
you talk about minimizing waste
instead of zero waste, people will
give you more credibility.” N
Staff Writer Gennady Sheyner
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paweekly.com.
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$16.50 an hour and the top position,
which Kamenelis holds, pays $37.
The Palo Alto Census Office
— its official name even though
it’s actually located in downtown
Mountain View — has 60 people
currently working in the office and
70 working in the field, he said.
The biggest hiring surge will
come after April 1 when Kamenelis expects to hire as many as 1,000
people. Those workers will personally visit households who have not
returned their census forms.
Tracking people down in person
nationally costs the government
$80 million to $90 million for every 1 percent of people who don’t
return the forms. The effort is massive, even on a local level, he said.
The Palo Alto Census Office covers about 194 census tracts, with 45
of those considered “hard to count”
— including Stanford University,
he said. The 194 tracts are in Palo
Alto, Los Altos, Los Altos Hills,
Mountain View and all of San Mateo County.
Kamenelis tries to hire people who
live in the census tract where they’ll
be working. People are more likely to
open their doors to a neighbor than to
a stranger, the reasoning goes.
“When we look for people we look
for them based on where they live, the
languages they speak and how well
they do on our test, which looks for
accuracy and precision,” he said.
Kamenelis said he expects to hire
40 or 50 Stanford students to do the
work on campus. Bilingual workers
are also desired. Spanish, Russian,
Vietnamese, Korean, Mandarin,
Cantonese and Tagalog are among
languages spoken by those hired.
Last week, field workers handdelivered census forms to 2,500
residents who do not have mailing
addresses. Most were on the San
Correction
In the story on the Yiddish Culture Festival (Palo Alto Weekly,
Feb. 5, 2010), the percentage
of Yiddish speakers murdered
in the Holocaust was incorrect.
According to Jon Levitow, the
correct estimate is about 50
percent. The Weekly regrets the
error. To request a correction,
contact Managing Editor Jocelyn
Dong at 650-326-8210, jdong@
paweekly.com or P.O. Box 1610,
Palo Alto, CA 94302.
Courtesy of the U.S. Census Bureau
P
alo Alto business owners
appear uncertain about joining a new county health care
plan for uninsured workers, despite
promises it would cut monthly insurance premiums in half.
The plan, “Healthy Workers,”
was developed by local advocacy
groups Working Partnerships USA
and Santa Clara Family Health
Plan and the county-run Santa
Clara Valley Health and Hospital
System. Healthy Workers is open
to those who earn less than $18 per
hour and work more than 20 hours
per week at businesses with two to
50 employees, Working Partnerships USA spokesman Jody Meacham said.
“There are such a great number in
our county who are without care,”
Santa Clara County supervisor Liz
Kniss, a registered nurse, said. “This
plan will give them the dignity and respect of having health care coverage.”
Hassem Bordbari, the owner of
Barron Park Florist on El Camino
Real, said he canceled health insurance for himself and his two employees one year ago because their combined monthly premium reached
$2,400. He knows several neighboring shop owners who cannot provide
insurance either, he said.
“(Health care) in this country is
all getting bad, especially when you
are getting older. ... We live by the
grace of God that nothing happens
to us,” he said.
Bordbari unsuccessfully looked
day that businesses cannot switch
to Healthy Workers from another
plan. Only small businesses that are
not now offering health coverage are
eligible, he said.
Paula Sandas, the president and
CEO of the Palo Alto Chamber of
Commerce, said the majority of
the chamber’s estimated 575 member businesses are small enough to
qualify for Healthy Workers.
“In Palo Alto, I would guess we
are talking about small retail and
restaurants. ... This is a really good
thing for businesses,” she said.
Healthy Workers has been in development since 2006, Meacham
said.
The plan provides standard medical care at a discount to people who
would otherwise rely on Santa Clara
Valley Health and Hospital System
emergency rooms — the county’s
medical “safety net” — for treatment, he said.
Since emergency-room visits cost
the county more than regular doctor’s appointments, the money the
Santa Clara Valley Health and Hospital System saves through reduced
emergency-room use will make up
for the discount, he said.
“Even if (discounted care) is still
costing us money, we still come out
ahead,” Kniss said.
Sandas said that Healthy Workers’ limited selection of participating clinics could be a problem for
business owners. The only participating clinic in Palo Alto is the
MayView Community Health Center on Grant Road.
Meacham said Working Partnerships USA will monitor the program’s effectiveness and accessibility in the coming months.
“If there’s tweaking that needs to
be done ... we want to be involved in
that,” he said. N
Editorial Intern Martin Sanchez
can be e-mailed at msanchez@
paweekly.com.
East Palo Alto seventh grader
Angela Ayala’s poster won a San
Mateo County-wide poster contest
to encourage participation in the
upcoming U.S. Census. “Don’t the
people of E.P.A. need more $? So,
make yourself count for the 2010
Census,” the poster urges.
Mateo County coast in Montara and
El Granada, as well as in the wooded
community of La Honda, he said.
This week, the workers turned
their attention to homeless shelters
and soup kitchens, contacting managers and seeking their cooperation
for the April 1 count deadline.
“On the night of (March 30) or
the morning of the 31st, from midnight to 7 a.m., we mobilize and go
to the homeless encampments and
we count the folks there,” he said.
The workers will approach homeless
persons in teams and will be mindful
not to wake up campers, he said.
Because homeless persons are
transient, the bureau may issue
blankets or other identifying markers once someone is counted in a
soup kitchen so he or she won’t be
double-counted elsewhere, he said.
Approximately $436 billion in
federal funds for highways, hospitals, schools, roads, nursing homes
and more are allocated based on
census data.
“There’s a huge amount of money
in play,” he said, emphasizing the
importance that every person be
counted.
Kamenelis said workers are
trained neither to be invasive nor to
get inappropriate personal information about anyone.
“We simply want to count,” he
said.
There is no reporting of persons
to U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, he said.
“We have to be very careful because there’s a fear about the census
— a fear about the government — and
we wrestle with that with everybody.
“We all take an oath and we face
five years in prison and a $250,000
fine for disclosing any personal information. We treat it as national
security — top secret,” he said. N
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ly.com.
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In the early morning hours of July
13, 2008, the chain also became the
object of desire for accused killer Koloto, who allegedly approached Lacy
and his friends at their parked gold
Lexus on Bryant Street in Palo Alto
after both parties returned from the
Blue Chalk Cafe on Ramona Street.
“Cuz-o, you got a ‘Port?” Maleki
recalled Koloto asking, seeing the
Newport cigarette Maleki had just lit.
Koloto walked around the car to
where Lacy was sitting in the rear
passenger seat with the car door
open. Maleki handed the cigarette
to Lacy to give to Koloto, he said.
Lacy placed the cigarette in Koloto’s hand. Koloto allegedly pulled
out a 9mm handgun from his waist
band. He cocked the gun and, with
his arm outstretched, held the gun
at an angle, pointing it directly at
Lacy’s forehead.
“Gimme your chain, bitch,” Maleki recalled Koloto saying.
Lacy did not react. Koloto repeated:
“It’s a jack move, bitch. Gimme
your chain, bitch,” Koloto said.
Lacy looked over at Maleki and
slowly shook his head. He proceeded to remove the chain from around
his head and handed it to Koloto,
Maleki said.
Suddenly Lacy lunged at Koloto,
pointing his head at Koloto’s chest.
Maleki heard a scuffle.
“Phil flew at him like Superman ...
like he was catapulted,” Maleki said.
Lacy wrapped his arms around
Koloto and appeared to push the
gunman backward.
Koloto fired a single shot so close
it made Maleki’s ears ring, he said.
“I jumped in the air. I checked myself to see if I had been shot,” he said.
“I heard a bang and saw Phil turn
and drop on the ground. The gunman looked bewildered, like, ‘What
did I do?’” Maleki said.
Maleki identified Koloto in court
as the shooter.
“The perpetrator’s face is the
same. It’s as clear to me as it was
that day,” Maleki said.
Lacy was rushed to Stanford Hospital and later died after being removed from life support.
Both groups of men had been partying that Saturday prior to their ill-fated
encounter in downtown Palo Alto.
Donald Lee, Koloto’s friend, testified in court Wednesday that their
day began around noon on July 12
at Koloto’s house in Gilroy, where
Koloto showed him a 9mm semi-automatic handgun. The friends then
took off in Lee’s white Toyota Yaris,
stopping in San Jose to pick up ecstasy pills, bottles of Hennessy and
a pack of Budweiser, before heading to a party at a home on Sparrow
Court in East Palo Alto later that
evening, Lee testified.
In the 45 minutes they spent at
the house, Lee said he and Koloto
mixed ecstasy and alcohol. At one
point, he said he heard three or four
gunshots fired but didn’t know who
was responsible.
By 1 a.m., they arrived in downtown Palo Alto, where they tried
to get into the Blue Chalk Cafe but
were turned away because it was
closing. Lee said he later told police
Koloto appeared “wasted.”
Meanwhile, Lacy, Maleki and
four friends started their night at
The Glow bar in San Mateo then
drove to Palo Alto.
The men parked in the underground parking structure under City
Hall and took turns drinking from a
$30 or $40 bottle of vodka, Maleki
testified.
On questioning from Santa Clara
County Deputy District Attorney
Matt Braker, Maleki admitted he
“did a couple of key shots of cocaine.” He described a key shot as
sticking a key into a bag of the white
powder and putting it up one’s nose,
a common technique. The men then
went to the Blue Chalk.
Lacy, at about 5 feet, 6 inches and
150 to 160 pounds, was standing outside the Blue Chalk in a brand-new
white T-shirt, jeans and red-and-white
Air Jordan shoes, Maleki recalled.
The necklace hung down to his waist,
prominently displayed, he said.
Koloto and Lee were standing nearby, but never entered the bar, Maleki
recalled. Koloto wore a black knit cap,
black hooded sweat shirt and had facial hair, long bushy hair and a distinctive long braid, Maleki said.
It was shortly thereafter, as both
parties were leaving the area around
1:30 a.m., that Koloto allegedly fatally shot Lacy, prosecutors said.
As Lacy’s friends reacted to the
shooting, Koloto returned to Lee’s car.
Lee, who said he was unaware of what
had taken place, testified that there
was no change in Koloto’s demeanor.
Lee drove to a warehouse party in East
Palo Alto, where someone said a murder had just occurred in Palo Alto.
Lee said when Koloto found out
there had been a murder, his facial
expression changed.
“His face dropped,” Lee said. “He
looked shocked.”
Lee testified that while they were
at the warehouse, Koloto had told
him he “popped someone.”
At around 4 a.m., they went to rest
at Koloto’s cousin’s house in East
Palo Alto.
Upon waking at 7 a.m., Lee said
he saw Koloto getting his hair cut in
the backyard. Koloto left the house
at about 10 a.m.
As part of an extensive manhunt,
Lee was arrested in Albuquerque,
N.M., and initially charged with murder. The charge was later reduced to
felony accessory, to which Lee pleaded no contest. He was sentenced to
one year in prison in June 2009.
Koloto was arrested Oct. 2, 2008.
During opening statements Braker, the prosecutor, said a bullet casing found near Lacy’s body matched
a casing police found at the Sparrow
Court home in East Palo Alto.
Braker claimed the casings and
other circumstantial evidence shows
Koloto killed Lacy.
Andrew Gutierrez, Koloto’s attorney, made only brief opening remarks.
“In every case where there’s a
needless and senseless loss of life
there’s always a lot of sadness and
tragedy,” he said. But “this was not
a random and opportunistic act of
violence at 1:30 a.m.”
Gutierrez urged the jury to keep
an open mind. The defense was
scheduled to start questioning its
witnesses Thursday, after the Weekly’s press deadline. N
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But the site is scheduled to revert to
parkland when the landfill closes in
2012. Any attempt to build a new
facility on the dedicated site would
need to be approved by Palo Alto
voters.
Bobel said the city could consider dedicating other parkland sites
in exchange for the right to build
a new composting facility on the
Byxbee Park site.
“We think something can be
done,” Bobel said. “The big hurdle
is the vote.”
But several residents told the
council Monday night they would
oppose plans involving dedicated
parkland, even if other areas in the
city become dedicated parkland.
“No more committees, no more
land trades. Just direct staff to complete the park at an earliest possible
time,” urged Enid Pearson, a former
Palo Alto mayor.
The lack of easy choices makes it
increasingly likely that the city will
begin shipping its compostable material to the Z-Best facility in Gilroy once the current landfill closes
in 2012. Last year, dozens of residents argued in a series of heated
public meetings that the city has an
obligation to take care of its own
compost.
David Coale, who sits on the
board of directors of the environmental nonprofit Acterra, urged
staff to seriously consider the Byxbee Park site, noting the new composting facility would only occupy a
small fraction of the park. He asked
the council to take the proposal to
the voters.
“A vote of the people is the fair
thing to do,” Coale said. “In an era
where we have minorities strongarming our democracy at the state
and federal level, I’d hate to see this
happen at the local council level.”
The compost task force also recommended arranging compost in
“aerated static piles” on airport
land in the near term, while city officials pursue an advanced wasteto-energy facility. Bobel estimated
that the aerated static piles would
cost the city about $3 million. Staff
opposes the task force’s recommendation, however.
“It’s not recommended primarily
due to cost and not having an available site,” Bobel said.
Councilman Greg Scharff said
the Byxbee Park site appears to be
the only possible option, based on
the staff study. He suggested polling the public for opinions about the
Byxbee option.
Former Mayor Peter Drekmeier,
a leading advocate of building a
local waste-to-energy facility, also
urged the city to conduct a citizen
survey.
“Unfortunately, we’re not too
much further along because staff
feels they can’t move forward until the park-dedication issue is resolved,” Drekmeier said. “I think
it’s a good solution to have a survey
that lets us know what the will of
the people is.” N
Staff Writer Gennady Sheyner
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News Digest
Three local schools land on state’s ‘worst’ list
Three local schools — including a charter school run by Stanford
University — have landed on the California Department of Education’s
“preliminary” list of the state’s worst-performing schools.
One of the schools, Edison-Ronald McNair Intermediate School, had
its charter revoked for poor performance in 2008 by East Palo Alto’s
Ravenswood City School District.
The Stanford-run East Palo Alto Academy Elementary School was
reorganized with a new principal last fall and recently petitioned Ravenswood trustees to allow it to continue operating.
The third school on the list, the K-8 Costano, has a new principal and
has been cited by Ravenswood officials and others as a campus in the
midst of a turnaround.
The rankings, representing the bottom 5 percent of schools in the state,
were based on state achievement tests and graduation rates, the Department of Education said.
Given the fact that one of the schools had its charter revoked two years
ago, it was unclear whether there was a time lag in the state data. Department of Education spokeswoman Pam Slater could not immediately be
reached for comment.
Once the list is final, each school will be required to engage in one of
four school intervention models and be eligible to apply for federal funds
to implement the changes. N
— Christina Kenrick
Palo Alto drops ‘prevailing-wage’ study
Palo Alto has scrapped its plan to study the impacts of union-level
wages on capital projects after the City Council concluded Monday that
such a study could be inconclusive and that its results may end up costing
the city money.
After an extensive debate, the council voted 5-4 to reject the recommendation from its Policy and Services Committee. The committee and
staff from the Public Works Department had recommended in December
that the city conduct a study to evaluate the costs and benefits of paying
workers employed by contractors the prevailing union wage for local
capital projects.
While most cities are required by state law to have prevailing-wage
laws, Palo Alto is exempt because of its status as a charter city. But some
city leaders, most notably former Councilmember John Barton, argued
that Palo Alto has a moral obligation to ensure that workers involved with
major capital projects receive union-level wages, which incorporate the
costs of training workers and providing them with health benefits.
City staff has evaluated more than a dozen studies on prevailing wage,
many of which featured conflicting results on the cost impacts. A council
majority, some alluding to the city’s current budget woes, argued Monday
that the city cannot afford to consider a policy change that could lead to
wage increases. N
— Gennady Sheyner
Informational meeting Monday on Google plan
An informational meeting has been set for 6 p.m. Monday on how
residents and businesses can support Palo Alto’s application to Google
to be a test community for a Google Open Fiber plan, racing against a
March 26 deadline.
Google has invited communities across the nation to apply for a “fiber to the premises” installation that could link homes and businesses
throughout the community with high-speed broadband fiber — an idea
that has been discussed for about 15 years in Palo Alto.
The meeting will be in the City Hall lobby, 250 Hamilton Ave., preceding the 7 p.m. City Council meeting.
“Experts from the city and community will provide an overview and
answer questions about the Google conditional offer to test a 1 gigabit
fiber-to-the-home network in one or more selected American cities,”
Bob Harrington, adviser to the mayor on fiber and the Internet, said of
the meeting.
“The City of Palo Alto wants to be one of the cities selected.”
Harrington said “making the cut requires two things: (1) a compelling response by the City of Palo Alto to Google, and (2) a compelling
response from the community to Google.
“In this case, our community is defined broadly. It includes everyone
who works and/or lives here, those who electronically come to Palo Alto
from throughout the globe, and all the organizations that employ or educate or serve them,” Harrington said.
More information is available from three websites: www.CityofPaloAlto.
org; www.Facebook.com as a fan page, “Palo Alto for Google Fiber”; and
www.iPaloAlto.com.
Google has said it wants to test how a fully connected community
could find innovative ways in which to communicate, and the impact that
might have on business, social and educational interactions. N
— Palo Alto Weekly staff
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Ploy nets burglary suspects in Portola Valley
Alert observation followed by a little deception — it was all in a
day’s work for sheriff’s deputies patrolling the Westridge neighborhood in Portola Valley Sunday. (Posted March 11 at 8:35 a.m.)
Possible suicide briefly closes part of 101
The California Highway Patrol is investigating a possible suicide
after someone fell onto southbound U.S. Highway 101 from the state
Highway 92 overpass in San Mateo Wednesday morning. (Posted March
10 at 1:53 p.m.)
Paly team takes another first in a science contest
For the second time in a week, Palo Alto High School’s science
club has earned top honors in a regional competition. (Posted March 10
at 9:54 a.m.)
Airport reps, public discuss February crash
L U C I L E PA C K A R D
C H I L D R E N ’ S H O S P I TA L
Palo Alto Airport representatives met with community members
Tuesday morning in an effort to improve communication between the
airport and the general public in light of the fatal Feb. 17 plane crash
that damaged several East Palo Alto homes. (Posted March 9 at 5:33 p.m.)
Man arrested for robbery after altercation at Fry’s
A man was arrested for strong-arm robbery Sunday after stealing a
pocket knife from Fry’s Electronics in Palo Alto and scuffling with the
store’s security guards, the Palo Alto police department said. (Posted
Your Child’s Health University
Small fire erupts at HP construction site
Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital offers classes and seminars designed
to foster good health and enhance the lives of parents and children.
A small fire broke out today in an HP building that is currently
being renovated, the Palo Alto fire department announced Tuesday
afternoon. (Posted March 9 at 3:32 p.m.)
March 9 at 4:16 p.m.)
City Council wants earlier release of staff reports
INFANT AND CHILD CPR
This 2-1/2 hour course provides an opportunity for new parents, grandparents and other
childcare providers to learn the techniques of infant and child CPR and choking prevention.
Infant and child mannequins provide hands-on training.
- Saturday, April 10: two classes offered: 9:00 - 11:30 am & 12:00 - 2:30 pm
COMFORT TECHNIQUES FOR LABOR
For couples who have already completed Childbirth Prep, this class provides additional
tools and practice for relaxation, breathing and comfort measures for labor.
- Saturday, April 17: 1:30 - 3:00 pm
DADS OF DAUGHTERS: THE JOYS & CHALLENGES OF
RAISING TEENAGE GIRLS
Julie Metzger, RN, creator of our “Heart to Heart” program, hosts an evening for
fathers who want to foster better understanding and open communication with their
teenage daughters.
- Tuesday, April 27: 7:00 - 8:30 pm
MOTHER-BABY MORNINGS
LPCH oﬀers a group forum for new mothers with infants 0-6 months of age.
Our group provides support and camaraderie for new parents while promoting
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Palo Alto will consider banning last-minute submissions by developers and releasing staff reports earlier in the week — measures that the
City Council hopes would promote government transparency. (Posted
March 9 at 11:43 a.m.)
Power outage hits 700 homes in Palo Alto
About 700 Palo Alto homes were without power from about 9:30
a.m. until 1 p.m. Tuesday because of downed power lines, city officials
said. (Posted March 9 at 11:31 a.m.)
East Palo Alto seeks to revise its rent-control law
After suffering legal setbacks last year, East Palo Alto officials are
once again looking to revamp the city’s much disputed rent-control
ordinance. (Posted March 9 at 10:41 a.m.)
Feds award $17 million in transit grants to Valley
Nearly $17 million in American Recovery and Reinvestment Act
grants have been awarded to the Silicon Valley public-transportation
systems. Two grants will fund hybrid buses for Santa Clara County and
San Mateo County transit systems and the third will fund new Caltrain
railroad bridges in San Mateo County. (Posted March 8 at 11:29 p.m.)
Energy secretary: ‘U.S. lagging in clean-tech race’
The U.S. lags behind other countries in the race for clean technology
even though it has the greatest “innovation machine” in the world, U.S.
Secretary of Energy Steven Chu told a Stanford University audience
Monday. (Posted March 8 at 9:45 p.m.)
Phil Lacy’s gold chain was his ‘pride and joy’
Homicide victim Philip Lacy was enamored of the long, gold chain
and heavy diamond-encrusted crucifix that played a central role in his
death, his best friend said during the opening day of trial for Lacy’s
accused murderer, Otto Emil Koloto. (Posted March 8 at 2:17 p.m.)
Palo Alto considers ban on ‘last-minute proposals’
Palo Alto should ban last-minute submissions by developers and
require city staff to release reports earlier, three City Council members
are arguing in a new memo. (Posted March 8 at 9:54 a.m.)
Faye McNair-Knox named ‘Woman of the Year’
Faye McNair-Knox, Ph.D., executive director of One East Palo
Alto Neighborhood Improvement Initiative, was honored Monday as
“Woman of the Year” for Assembly District 21 before the state Assembly in Sacramento. (Posted March 8 at 8:40 a.m.)
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CityView
A round-up of
Notice of Availability
Five-Year Review Report
Installation Restoration Sites 1, 22, 26, and 28
Former Naval Air Station Moffett Field
Moffett Field, CA
Palo Alto government action this week
City Council (March 8)
Compost: The council heard a presentation from staff about the city’s options for future
composing. A staff analysis showed that building a composting facility on private land
near Embarcadero Road would be prohibitively expensive and that building one on Palo
Alto Airport land would impact the airport. Staff said it could be possible to build an anaerobic digestion facility at Byxbee Park, but only if voters approve using the dedicated
parkland for the new facility. The discussion will continue on April 5. Action: None
Prevailing wage: The council voted to turn down a recommendation from the Policy
and Services Committee to conduct a pilot study examining the impacts of prevailing wage on local capital projects. Yes: Klein, Schmid, Holman, Scharff, Burt No:
Espinosa, Yeh, Shepherd, Price
New task force: The council voted to have the city’s Policy and Services Commission consider forming a new task force to evaluate the city’s infrastructure backlog,
currently estimated at about $500 million. Yes: Unanimous
Board of Education (March 9)
Photovoltaic project: The board authorized the installation of a photovoltaic system
on the 2-year-old Science Resource Center building located between JLS Middle
School and Hoover Elementary School, and the execution of an agreement with Sun
Chariot Solar of San Carlos to design and install the system. Yes: Unanimous
City Council Policy and Services Committee
(March 9)
Infrastructure: The committee discussed a colleague’s memo urging the creation
of a new task force to analyze the city’s infrastructure backlog. The new task force
would look at each item in the backlog, prioritize the items and consider ways to pay
for them. Committee members expressed concern about the tight deadlines proposed in the colleagues’ memo recommending the new task force. Action: None
The Department of the Navy (Navy) completed a Five-Year Review in February 2010 of environmental cleanup actions under the
Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA) at the former Naval Air Station Moffett Field
(Moffett Field), California. The sites addressed in the Five-Year Review included Installation Restoration (IR) Program Sites 1, 22, 26,
and 28. Contaminants present in soil and groundwater at these sites include volatile organic compounds, semi-volatile organic compounds,
petroleum hydrocarbons, pesticides, polychlorinated biphenyls, and metals. The remedies selected for the Site 1 Landfill and the Site
22 Landfill include covering the landfills, performing post-closure care of the landfills, implementing institutional controls, and monitoring
the groundwater and landfill gas. The remedies selected for the Site 26 and Site 28 groundwater plumes include groundwater
extraction/treatment and groundwater monitoring.
Protectiveness of the remedies was determined through assessment of groundwater monitoring data, review of documents, interviews,
and site inspections. The Navy found that the remedies for Sites 1, 22, 26, and 28 are currently protective of human health and the
environment because (1) contaminant concentrations are stable or decreasing, and (2) potential exposure pathways that could pose
unacceptable risks are incomplete or being controlled. Recommendations and follow-up actions to ensure future protectiveness are
detailed in the Five-Year Review.
The next Five-Year Review for Sites 1, 22, 26, and 28 will be completed by February 2015. The February 2010 Five-Year Review report
is available at:
Information Repository
Mountain View Public Library
585 Franklin Street
Mountain View, CA 94041
(650) 903-6337
Administrative Record (AR)
Contact: Ms. Diane Silva, AR Coordinator
Naval Facilities Engineering Command,
Southwest
937 N. Harbor Drive
Building 1, 3rd Floor
San Diego, CA 92132
(619) 532-3676
Utilities Advisory Commission (March 10)
Energy efficiency: The commission recommended approval of the 10-year energyefficiency plan proposed by staff. The plan seeks to achieve a 10-year cumulative
energy-efficiency saving of 7.2 percent by fiscal year 2020. Yes: Unanimous
Revenue requirements: The commission heard reports from staff about the longterm financial projections and revenue requirements for the city’s water and wastewater-collection funds. Action: None
Planning and Transportation Commission
(March 10)
Open space: The commission voted to recommend not setting maximum house sizes
for the open space (OS) district. The commission also recommended that if the City
Council chooses to impose maximum house sizes, it should consider 12,000 square feet
as the possible maximum size. Yes: Garber, Tuma, Lippert, Keller No: Fineberg, Martinez
Additional information about Navy activities at Moffett Field can be found at:
http://www.bracpmo.navy.mil/basepage.aspx?baseid=52&state=California&name=moffett
Questions about the Five-Year Review may be directed to: Ms. Kathryn Stewart, Base Realignment and Closure (BRAC)
Environmental Coordinator, 1 Avenue of the Palms, Suite 161, San Francisco, CA 94130-1806, (415) 743-4715,
kathryn.stewart@navy.mil.
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Public Agenda
PALO ALTO CITY COUNCIL ... The council will hold a joint study session with the Planning and Transportation Commission. The council
also plans to hold a study session on the proposed high-speed rail
project; to consider a new farmers market at Lytton Plaza; and to hold
a public hearing on the water-supply assessment for Stanford University Medical Center expansion project. The study session with the
Planning and Transportation Commission is scheduled for 6 p.m. on
Monday, March 15, in the Council Conference Room at City Hall (250
Hamilton Ave.). Regular meeting will follow in the Council Chambers.
PALO ALTO CITY COUNCIL FINANCE COMMITTEE ... The committee plans to adopt resolutions approving four power-purchase agreements and to discuss the long-term financial projections and revenue
requirements for the city’s electric, water, gas and wastewater collection funds. The meeting is scheduled for 7 p.m. on Tuesday, March
16, in the Council Conference Room at City Hall (250 Hamilton Ave.).
PALO ALTO ARCHITECTURAL REVIEW BOARD ... The board plans
to conduct an architectural review for 1213 Newell Road, a request
by the city’s Utilities Department to construct an emergency water
well facility adjacent to the Community Gardens at the Main Library
facility; and to discuss storefront façade changes at 222 University
Ave. The meeting is scheduled for 8:30 a.m. on Thursday, March 18,
in the Council Chambers at City Hall (250 Hamilton Ave.).
PALO ALTO CITY COUNCIL ... The council plans to interview candidates for the Human Relations Commission. The interviews will begin at 5:30 p.m. on Thursday, March 18, in the Council Conference
Room at City Hall (250 Hamilton Ave.).
PALO ALTO PUBLIC ART COMMISSION ... The commission plans
to discuss allocating funds for photographing the city’s art collection.
The photos would be on display on the city’s website. The commission also plans to hear updates on the California Avenue streetscape
improvements and to discuss its upcoming joint meeting with the City
Council. The meeting is scheduled for 7 p.m. on Thursday, March 18,
in the Council Conference Room at City Hall (250 Hamilton Ave.).
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Violence related
Domestic violence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3
Family violence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1
Strong-arm robbery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1
Theft related
Commercial burglary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1
Credit card forgery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1
Grand theft attempt . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1
Petty theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3
Shoplifting. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3
Vehicle related
Abandoned auto . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1
Bicycle theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2
Hit and run . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2
Misc. traffic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .5
Suspended license . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .5
Theft from auto . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2
Vehicle accident/minor injury . . . . . . . . .6
Vehicle accident/property damage. . . . .3
Alcohol or drug related
Drunk in public . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2
Drunken driving. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .4
Possession of drugs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1
Miscellaneous
Casualty fall . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2
Firearm disposal request . . . . . . . . . . . .1
Found property. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3
Lost property . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1
Missing person . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2
Municipal code violation . . . . . . . . . . . . .2
Noise ordinance violation . . . . . . . . . . . .2
Possession of stolen property . . . . . . . .1
Psych. subject . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2
Sick and cared for . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1
Unattended death. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1
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Fraud . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3
Grand theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1
Petty theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .4
Residential burglary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2
Shoplift . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1
Vehicle related
Auto theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1
Driving w/ suspended license. . . . . . . . .2
Hit and run . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2
Misc. traffic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1
Recovered vehicle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1
Theft from auto . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .4
Vehicle accident/injury . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2
Vehicle tow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2
Alcohol and drug related
Drunken driving. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1
Drunk in public . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1
Drug activity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .4
Substance possession . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1
Miscellaneous
Fire call . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1
Follow up . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1
Gang validations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1
Juvenile problem. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1
Lost/found property . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3
Mental evaluation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2
Missing person . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2
Other/misc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .5
Outside assistance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1
Suspicious circumstances . . . . . . . . . . .2
Warrant arrest. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .5
Vandalism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .4
VIOLENT CRIMES
Palo Alto
Where age is just a number
Evergreen Drive, 3/5/10, 10:02 p.m.; domestic violence/battery.
Durand Way, 3/5/10, 11:30 p.m.; domestic
violence/battery.
Arastradero Road, 3/6/10, 11:44 a.m.; family violence/battery.
300 Block Portage Avenue, 3/7/10, 7:32
p.m.; strong-arm robbery.
Guinda Street, 3/8/10, 1:12 a.m.; domestic
violence/battery.
Transitions
Deaths
Ursula Bujanovich
Ursula Johanna Bujanovich, 88, a
longtime resident of Palo Alto, died
Feb. 13.
She was born in Berlin, Germany.
She attended university in Vienna,
Austria, where she met her husband,
Gyulius Bujanovich. She worked for
several years as a translator for the
German government and eventually
immigrated to Wisconsin, where she
worked as a marketing assistant for
A.O. Smith International.
In 1962 she moved to Palo Alto.
She became a U.S. citizen in 1969.
She was an active volunteer with the
Palo Alto libraries and tutored students in English at Stanford University. She attended the Unitarian Universalist Church of Palo Alto. She
was a voracious reader and enjoyed
entertaining friends at her home.
She is survived by her sister-in-law
Ilse Trampe of Berlin; stepdaughter
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Maria Bujanovich Rakovszky of
Hungary; and one niece. She will
also be missed by many friends and
neighbors, loved ones said.
Donations may be made to the
Palo Alto Humane Society.
dent spirit.
She is survived by her children,
Anne Richards, Katharine Lockhart and Timothy Meyer; and four
grandchildren.
Memorial donations may be made
to All Saintsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Episcopal Church, 555
Waverley St., Palo Alto, CA 94301,
or the Alpha Omega Pi Foundation,
5390 Virginia Way, Brentwood, TN
37027.
Lela Meyer
Lela Coe Meyer, 95, a longtime resident of
Palo Alto, died
Feb. 14.
She was born
in Mound City,
Kan. She attended Oregon Episcopal School
and graduated from Stanford University in 1934.
In 1928 she married Dr. Robert
Meyer, an orthopedic surgeon.
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Joint Study Session with the Planning and Transportation Commission (P&TC) to Discuss Palo Alto Planning and Transportation Issues
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2.
Proclamation Recognizing the Contributions and Achievements of the
Late Elizabeth T. (Betty) Meltzer
3.
Proclamation Welcoming Exchange Students and Chaperones from
Tsuchiura City, Ibaraki, Japan
4.
Selection of Candidates to be Interviewed for the Library Advisory
Commission for One Unexpired Term Ending January 31, 2011
5.
Approval of a Contract with Davey Resource Group in the Amount of
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Adoption of a Resolution Authorizing the Association of Bay Area
Governments (ABAG) to Accept an American Recovery and Reinvestment Act Residential Building RetroďŹ t Program Grant Award on Behalf
of the City of Palo Alto and to Enter Into all Necessary and Related
Contracts, Agreements and Amendments
7.
Approval of Change of High Speed Rail Subcommittee from Ad Hoc
Committee to Standing Committee
8.
Update on High Speed Rail Project
9.
Approval of Revised Plan for Downtown Weekday Palo Alto Farm
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Thomas
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Damon of Portola
Valley was born
on November 18,
1921 in Sunnyside,
Washington, died
peacefully in his
sleep February 18,
2010 in Redwood
City, California
surrounded by his
family.
He was born in Sunnyside, Washington, the
only child of Frank A. Damon of Toledo, Ohio and
Deborah Elizabeth Curtis of Browns, Illinois. He
was an excellent student at Prosser High School
in Washington, where he was editor of the high
school newspaper and graduated in 1939. He
then attended Whitman College in Walla Walla,
Washington where he served as newspaper editor
of The Whitman Pioneer and graduated in 1943
with a Bachelorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s degree in English.
He enlisted in the U.S. Army where he served
under General George Patton in Germany in 1944
and 1945, eventually was promoted to Class
E-5 Technical Sergeant. He participated in the
campaigns at The Ardennes, The Rhineland and
Central Europe and received the American Theater
Service Medal, the Good Conduct Medal, the
European-African-Middle Eastern Service Medal
and the American Victory Medal.
After the war, he enrolled in the Stanford School
of Education where he received a Masters in
Education in 1948. While there he met his beloved
wife, Rosemary Watson Damon. They were married
on July 24, 1949, and recently celebrated their 60th
wedding anniversary.
Thomas had an extensive career in adult
education. He began his teaching career in 1948
teaching English and Journalism at Los Gatos High
School and served as Principal of the Los Gatos
Evening High School from 1954-57.
He received his doctorate in education from
Stanford University in 1957, and initially advised
a number of school districts around the state as
a Consultant to the Bureau of Adult Education of
the California State Department of Education in
1957-58.
In 1958 he commenced a 25 year career
in the Palo Alto UniďŹ ed School District. He
specialized in Adult Education, initially serving
as the principal of the Cubberly Adult School
from 1958-67, then Director of Adult Education
for the District from 1967-82.
Thomas served on Adult Education associations
at the county, state, and national levels. Key positions
included Consultant in Adult and Vocational
Education, Santa Clara County OfďŹ ce of Education,
1966-69; Adult Education Chair, Association of
California School Administrators from 1973-76
and President, National Association for Public
Continuing and Adult Education from 1978-79. His
work with NAPCE included international contacts
with adult educators from around the world. He
also served on many accrediting assignments for
the Western States Accreditation Commission.
Thomas was a lifelong member of the Kiwanis
Peninsula Club, serving as club president, and Lt.
Governor of the Region 1997-98 and maintaining
a perfect attendance record. He was President of
Neighbors Abroad and the Palo Alto sister cities
program and an active member of the Covenant
Presbyterian Church in Palo Alto. Tom and Rosemary
were host parents for ďŹ ve foreign exchange students
from Germany, Mexico and Turkey.
Thomas is survived by his wife Rosemary
W. Damon, Stanford MBA class of 1948, retired
Professor of Accounting at Canada College who
resides in Portola Valley; his daughter Mary
D. Burke (married to Frank), Stanford class of
1976, who resides in Paradise Valley, Arizona;
his daughter Nancy D. Johnston (married to
Dana), Whitman class of 1979, who resides in
Sunnyvale, California; his granddaughter Caitlin
M. Burke, Vanderbilt class of 2006 and University
of Southern California Masters in Accounting
class of 2008 who resides in San Francisco, CA;
his grandsons Thomas F. Burke and Andrew D.
Johnston, who both attend Cornell University in
Ithaca, New York; and his granddaughter Megan
E. Johnston who attends The Kings Academy
High School in Sunnyvale.
Thomas and Rosemary were avid world
travelers, having visited six continents and the
Seven Wonders of the World. Thomas was also
a talented photographer who photographed their
world travels and all family events and celebrations
in black and white and color photographs and in 16
mm home movies.
A private family memorial was held February
21 at Spangler Mortuary in Los Altos followed
by interment at Gate of Heaven Cemetery, Saint
Clare Mausoleum on February 22 in Los Altos. A
Celebration of Life Service will be held on Saturday
March 20th at Covenant Presbyterian Church in
Palo Alto at 2:30 p.m.
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Editorial
Is Big Brother
dressed in green?
Palo Alto’s proposed recycling ordinance that would
have refuse-pickup crews watching for recyclable
materials in people’s garbage is a backwards approach
P
alo Alto has the proud distinction of being one of the first communities to implement recycling just over 40 years ago.
But there’s a huge difference between getting a large
majority of residents to separate cans and bottles and paper and
the proposal now circulating to try to push the recycling level
higher in Palo Alto. The initial approach was to provide an
opportunity for residents to recycle their household waste in a
reasonably convenient manner.
There were serious skeptics, including then-City Manager
George Morgan, who derided the notion that anyone would go to
the trouble of sorting out their waste stream. He was as surprised
as anyone when within months thousands of households were
doing so. Other communities quickly followed suit, once it was
demonstrated that the public was willing to take an extra step.
Curbside-pickup of recycled materials followed in 1978, also a
great success in terms of participation.
An earlier generation’s effort was the widespread recycling of
tin cans during World War II, also voluntary.
What was missing from those proud moments of history is
the punitive component that is part of the city’s current recycling
proposal. Under the plan, there would be a full year of education
before any punitive steps kicked in. Then refuse collectors would
only check for “egregious” violators who put large amounts of
recyclable materials in their black garbage bins, according to
the city staff. And there would be several warnings before a
“surcharge” was levied or, ultimately, there would be no garbage
pickup from the offender. City staff points to other cities that
have such ordinances and cite a low incidence of penalties being
invoked.
But the overall plan raises serious issues of privacy, individual
rights and inappropriate use of “police powers,” especially
when delegated to a private firm, GreenWaste, and its garbage
collectors.
Practically, it raises the question: Why didn’t anyone in charge
realize that this would be a violation of privacy and rights?
And why didn’t anyone realize that including such a provision
would jeopardize the entire recycling effort, which falls under
the broad mandate of “Zero Waste”? That term in itself is at
best a fantasy and at worst a deception, as noted by a number
of commentators in the Town Squire forum of the Weekly’s
community website, www.PaloAltoOnline.com.
Zero Waste is an impossible goal, even spread over more than
a decade. And even if it were theoretically possible to reach zero,
the cost in terms of dollars and staff time and impact on residents
and businesses would be prohibitively high for each smaller-andsmaller increment achieved.
That is not to say that we as a community and society should
not strive mightily to be efficient in terms of how we use
resources, or how we respect the environment and take actions to
mitigate global warming. Or that we should not lobby to require
the food industry and its marketing arm to find less wasteful ways
of packaging products — to avoid the need to recycle in the first
place.
But for a city to come up with an onerous plan to spy on and
punish violators of its recycling law, even after much education
and repeated warnings, simply undermines both the city’s
credibility and the acceptability of the entire plan. Our elected
and appointed officials should be protecting our privacy and
individual rights of free choice, not looking for ways to exercise
their police power in the name of a theoretical goal that itself is a
sham.
If someone chooses not to recycle, that should be their right as
a citizen, as irresponsible as that may be.
From a practical standpoint, even raising this plan in its present
form has created a wave of concern and opposition that will be
counterproductive to legitimate, well-meaning, urgent efforts
to reduce our “carbon footprint” in the face of global warming.
Locally, it threatens to be the genesis of a “green backlash.”
The correct effort should be one of education, voluntary
participation, perhaps some incentives in pricing and rewards,
building on the proud community history of recycling that Palo
Alto shares with its residents and businesses.
The enforcement facet of the recycling plan should instantly be
buried as deep as possible in the city’s landfill.
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Editorials, letters and opinions
Complete park as planned
Editor,
There is a long history of using
Byxbee Park for refuse operations,
including compost. I was 24 when
Byxbee Park was dedicated. With
luck I will be 72 when the whole park
is finally opened to the public!
Recently staff identified 4.7 acres
of the park that could be used for a
compost facility. Appendix H-3 of
the Composting Task Force Report
says, “This site is not recommended
for several reasons. The site is on
parkland. The site’s southern extent
would be constrained by the edge of
the landfill’s lift, ... would interfere
with anticipated screening between
the Byxbee Hills Park and the waterpollution-control plant, and also be
too narrow and small to accommodate a practical operation. Its access
would also conflict with the park.”
A 2008 Compost Feasibility Study
pointed out that a 1,000-foot buffer
zone would be required for noise,
dust and odors. That buffer would
require 138 acres — basically all of
Byxbee Park.
After years of waiting for our park,
it should not be relegated to being a
buffer zone!
Most of the renderings of an anaerobic-digestion facility show tidy
rows of containers, usually painted
green. What they do not show is the
enormous pre-processing building
that would be needed for food waste
and four days worth of feedstock for
a 24/7 operation. Nor do they show
the post-processing piles of compost
to be cured. Beeping truck traffic
and engines generating power from
recovered methane are also missing.
Once the city commits to a multi-million dollar project like this, operated
by a private contractor, it will be impossible to put the genie back in the
bottle. Byxbee Park users will have to
bear the brunt of the inevitable operational problems and future demands
for more space or more lenient rules,
etc.
It would be most unpleasant to
have an industrial composting facility at the gateway to Byxbee Park and
dominating its northerly viewshed.
Council should complete Byxbee
Park as planned.
Emily M. Renzel
Forest Avenue
Palo Alto
Zero Waste?
Editor,
After listening to the presentation
on recycling and many questions
Tuesday night, the actual proposal
seems very different from what has
been written in some local papers and
posted online.
A year will be spent informing everyone what is and isn’t recyclable,
what to recycle and what not to put
with garbage. Trash collectors will
not do extensive inspections of garbage, they will just look at what can
be seen when they open the can to
take it to the truck for dumping. They
wonít unwrap garbage bags to look
inside.
After the first year if the trash collector sees significant amounts of
recyclables in the garbage can they
will leave a tag plus send another list
of what is and isn’t recyclable. It’s unclear what is significant, but it’s more
than a small amount of recyclables.
If there are more significant amounts
of recyclables in the trash will they
send a formal warning. A third such
event will lead to a small fine. Only
if there is a fourth amount of significant recyclables in the trash will they
take actions like refusing to pick up
the trash.
Zero waste is unattainable. There
will always be things that can’t be recycled, like Styrofoam. They agreed
but prefer calling the program Zero
Waste as that is the goal.
Let’s see what they what the final
proposal is taking into account the
comments at the meetings and on
the web page. My sense is it won’t
be nearly as draconian as was suggested.
Bob Moss
Orme Street
Palo Alto
Google fiber
Editor,
Google is proposing to invest mil-
lions in developing and managing
Google Fiber for Communities in
selected cities.
If Palo Alto is selected, Google
is willing to invest approximately
$2,000 to hook-up your place as well
as every premise in our community.
This totals about $50 million of new
leading-edge infrastructure in Palo
Alto.
Google Open Fiber promises rocksolid reliability, competitive pricing,
service choice and speeds of more
than 1 gigabit per second. With that
capability, each of us has the potential
to create new and innovative breakthrough services in technology, health
care, medicine, business, entertainment, games and in every conceivable field directly from our homes,
garages, offices and businesses.
To merit this Google investment,
each of us must make it clear to
Google that their proposal is welcome. Simply click tinyurl.com/
iWantGoogleFiber and fill in the
blanks.
Do it now, the deadline for submissions is March 26.
Help and further information is
available at: iPaloAlto.com.
Joe A. Villareal
Sheridan Avenue
Palo Alto
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Guest Opinion
Local take-home lessons from a rocking, rolling Chilean bus ride
by Peter Katz
s I looked out from the relative safety and luxury of our hotel room at
the Grand Hyatt in Santiago, Chile, I
started reflecting on the experience of living
through a major earthquake.
Five days earlier my wife, Jennifer, stepdaughter Jessie and I sat in an unremarkable
bus station, about to get on an overnight bus
ride that should have been a 10-hour journey
from Pucon back to Santiago. Jessie, a junior
at the University of California, San Diego, is
spending her spring semester at the University
of Chile in Santiago. Jen and I decided to visit
and explore Chile with her during a break.
We spent three glorious days at a wonderful
Tyrolean-style hotel on Lake Villarrica, where
we climbed the Villarrica volcano and whitewater-rafted the Trancura River.
After a near disaster of getting on the wrong
bus, in large part due to my limited Spanish,
we headed out of Pucon to return to Santiago
overnight. We were in the next to last row,
near the lavatory door. This would prove extremely unfortunate in the next 24 hours.
Several hours later I was awakened by a
strange lurching, as if from a flat tire. None of
us were clear on what was happening. Others
began saying “terremoto,” Spanish for earthquake. We did not feel in danger. It was only
after daylight that we saw the devastation and
imagined what could have been.
The driver shared news from his radio that
there had been a powerful earthquake, first
measured as a 9.0 magnitude. I thought of
Santiago with its tall buildings, dense population and history of quake-related destruction.
Tidbits of information and misinformation
came over the radio or cell phone calls from
friends and family of our bus-mates. We heard
that Pucon, from which had just come, had
been “flattened.” We heard that Isla Robin-
A
son Crusoe, off the coast, had split and half
had fallen into the sea. We heard that a huge
tsunami was 10 minutes from Hawaii and that
there was a tsunami warning for California. It
felt like the outside world was all havoc.
We were told the Santiago airport had collapsed — so much for our flight home. The
earthquake hit at 3:34 a.m. with its epicenter
about 40 kilometers off the coast of central
Chile. The magnitude would officially be
recorded as 8.8, or the fifth most powerful
earthquake since reliable seismic measurements have been taken — more than 800
times as powerful as the one that struck Haiti
only six weeks before.
We sat on the bus in the dark for hours,
and felt numerous powerful aftershocks. We
dozed. At some point, whether through impatience, sense of duty or adventure, our driver
decided to pick his way back down the road,
navigating around obstacles. We passed buses
disabled with flat tires and even one on its
side.
In the small city of Parral people were walking or riding their bicycles with no particular
purpose or destination. There was a haze of
dust and heavy smoke. At the city center bus
depot other buses and some large trucks began
to arrive and pile up in and around the depot.
It seemed we were going to be there days if
not weeks. We had water and some food and
agreed we needed to ration what we had.
We were finally allowed off the bus so
we gathered camera and blankets to keep us
warm in the cool morning and headed out.
We had little idea of the destruction. We saw
dark smoke coming from a building about a
block away, facing a beautiful park. We set
out to walk several blocks in each direction to
survey the damage and determine if there was
anything we could do to help.
A most frustrating part of the experience
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was that there was no organization to the “rescue effort.” Language was a barrier. Many
homes were damaged, but about every third
or fourth house was destroyed. I later learned
that the police station, electricity, telephone
lines and possibly water supplies were all destroyed. There was no communication with
the rest of the world.
Curiously, there didn’t seem to be many
medical emergencies. Second-hand information was that there were just six deaths in Parral due to the quake. My guess is that it was
the long duration of the quake that brought
many buildings down, and that most inhabitants had time to get out safely.
But how could we help? We joined a 30year-old American woman from our bus who
had spent the last two months visiting her kayaker boyfriend in Pucon, who was somehow
managing to sleep. On one trip back to the
bus, without so much as a verbal warning the
driver started it up and backed his way precariously through the parking lot toward the
street. The drivers had determined that they
could continue their journeys — curious given what we saw and learned later: The main
highway was severed in many places. Bridges
had collapsed. But we were delighted to be on
the road because we had imagined being stuck
in that bus for days.
For the next 12 hours our driver navigated
Ruta 5 and its obstacles, detours and closures
and slowly we inched back toward the capital.
We began to wonder about petrol, as we had
been on the road for more than 20 hours.
As we approached Santiago we could see
lights and eventually traffic signals. We took
photos of failures of bridges and highways,
scenes that later showed up on CNN. We really had been right in the middle of it.
We finally pulled into the terminal at 9:15
p.m., about 22 hours after we left Pucon.
Exhausted and concerned for our Chilean
neighbors, we were nonetheless ecstatic to be
back in control of our destiny. Everybody gave
each other hugs and well wishes as we unloaded our luggage. I expressed hearty thanks for a
job well done to the driver, who I felt had gone
above and beyond the call of duty. We grabbed
a taxi back to Jessie’s apartment, where we finally were able to use Skype to call family and
friends and let them know we were safe. The
emotional voices we heard on the other end of
each of these calls were unforgettable.
It’s definitely much easier to be the one in
a situation than to be a mom or dad, son or
daughter, or brother or sister on the other end
just wondering if we are all right. Jen and I
were glad to be there with Jessie, even with
that awful bus ride.
We confirmed the next morning that the
airport would not be open to outgoing international flights for at least six days. Again we
wished we could somehow help in recovery
efforts. This proved impossible due to phones
not being answered and blocked roads.
Our hearts and prayers go out to the wonderful people of Chile and we are confident
that the country will rebuild itself even better
and stronger than before.
Since our return my thoughts have turned to
Palo Alto and the Bay Area, and what would
have happened if an earthquake of that magnitude — almost a thousand times more powerful than the 1989 Loma Prieta quake — were
to hit our region. Or even one such as the 7.2
magnitude quake that hit Santiago Thursday
morning. Consider that a reminder. N
Peter Katz is the managing partner of The
Counter Northern California restaurants,
including one on California Avenue in Palo
Alto. A longer version of his Chilean experience is at http://peterkatz.wordpress.com. He
can be e-mailed at pkatz@thecounterburger.
Asked on California Avenue. Interviews by Mike Lata. Photographs by Vivian Wong.
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coming up.”
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is beginning to make a shift depending
on how it starts— in like a lion out like
a lamb.”
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like that.”
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650-207-9909
Palo Alto — Desirable community center.
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$3,750,000
Ted
Paulin
650-766-6325
Palo Alto — This prestigious Old Palo Alto
Grace
Wu
650-543-1086
Los Altos — Contemporary design custom
home situated on a 1/3 acre plus lot. 5bd/4.5ba,
4260+/- sft living area, soaring ceilings with
style, openness, & simplicity.
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ceilings, mahogany floors, arched doorways
and fine craftsmanship.
$4,700,000
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SOLD
David
Olerich
650.543.1059
Palo Alto — Stunning new home. A unique
Sherry
Bucolo
650-207-9909
Palo Alto — Premier Professorville Custom
blend of Palo Alto tradition with clean
contemporary lines. 3000+/- sq ft home on 8400
sq ft cul-de-sac lot. Great schools. $2,850,000
dolerich@apr.com
Sherry
Bucolo
650-207-9909
Palo Alto — Premier Crescent Park home
Christy
Giuliacci
650-380-5989
Palo Alto — Built in 2008, this stunning
offers 3,100+/- sf of elegant living space + 3-car
attached garage. Large picturesque 11,000+/- sf
lot.
Offered at $2,750,000
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5bd, 5 ½ ba stunning home of 3800+/- sf,
separate guest suite w/private entry. Fabulous
location - Just 6 blocks to downtown.
$2,685,000
sbucolo@apr.com
5bd/4.5ba home offers 3,310± sf of living space
on an 8,300± sf lot near top Gunn High School.
Attached two-car garage.
$2,399,000
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Teng
650-245-4490
Palo Alto — Wonderful opportunity to rebuild
or modernize this adorable cottage which has
not been on the market since it was built in
1924. Fabulous 12,500+/- sq ft lot.
$2,500,000
jteng@apr.com
Grace
Wu
650-543-1086
PA most beautiful streets- Christmas Tree Lane.
3bd/1.5ba spacious LR. Family RM has sets of
French doors that open to a brick patio.
$2,495,000
gwu@apr.com
SOLD
Arti
Miglani
650-804-6942
Palo Alto — Lovely home located on one of
SOLD
Palo Alto — Located in desirable Leland Manor.
5 bedrooms 3 baths on a 10,000+/- sq ft lot, park
like yard with a lap pool. Charming completely
remodeled home.
amiglani@apr.com
Dana
Van Hulsen
650-248-3950
Palo Alto — Beautiful contemporary Crescent
dvanhulsen@apr.com
Park home! Fabulous location close to
downtown, schools, & parks. Call me for details
and let me help you find your dream house!
This is the perfect time to buy.
Shari
Ornstein
650-814-6682
Stanford — For eligible Stanford Faculty and
Staff Only. Dramatic contemporary expanded
and remodeled 5bd/3ba + office home in
pristine condition.
$2,095,000
SOLD
Desiree
Docktor
650-291-8487
Palo Alto — Circa 1932 home is an exquisite
Arti
Miglani
650-804-6942
Palo Alto — A unique home perfect for the
ddocktor@apr.com
amiglani@apr.com
example of Tudor style in sought after Crescent Park.
Lovely landscaped gardens. Authentic details such
as leaded glass windows, mahogany doors.
Represented buyer
$2,149,000
comfort and convenience of downtown living.
Award wining home built by architect Peterson
modern home with contemporary features.
$1,950,000
sornstein@apr.con
Sharon and
George Gerbing
650-543-1083
sgerbing@apr.com
San Mateo Park — Beautifully renovated
3040+/- sq ft craftsman features 4bd/3ba.
Hardwood floors, double paned windows,
energy efficient systems… and much more!
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Jenny Teng
650-465-1651
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650-245-4490
jteng@apr.com
Palo Alto — Beautifully maintained home in
Supriya Gavande
650.380.4948
sgavande@apr.com
Southgate built in 1934. 4 bedrooms 2 baths
upstairs, 2 ½ baths down. Wonderfully updated
kitchen, nice family room, basement, new roof.
Judy Ellis
650-543-1027
jellis@apr.com
SOLD
Los Altos — Located on a quiet cul-de-sac in
a highly desirable neighborhood, this 4bd/3ba
home offers a spacious living room with
fireplace. Bright and light throughout the house.
SOLD
Shari Ornstein
650-814-6682
sornstein@apr.con
Lynne
Mercer
650-543-1000
Menlo Park — Gorgeous remodeled 3bd/2ba
Allied Arts classic with state of art kitchen, many
upgrades. Separate guest quarters & large back
yard. Represented buyer while at CB.
Lmercer@apr.com
Palo Alto — Sold in seven days. Tucked away
Denise Simons
650-269-0210
dsimons@apr.com
on a charming cul-de-sac in desirable Midtown,
this stately, traditional 5bd home has been
meticulously maintained and recently updated.
SOLD
Suzie Provo
650-465-3800
sprovo@apr.com
Palo Alto — Spacious 3bd/2ba plus 1bd/1ba
Nick Granoski
650-269-8556
ngranoski@apr.com
Kelly
Lawson
650-255-3983
guesthouse/cottage. 9415+/- sf lot!! Room to
expand. 2234+/- sf living space. Designer quality
remodeled baths & kitchen.
$1,699,000
Arti
Miglani
650-804-6942
Los Altos — Perched amongst native oaks and
peeking onto the 4th tee of the country club.
Single level, 2075+/- sq ft lot. Remodeled home,
must see!
$1,550,000
Pam
Page
650.543.1028
Palo Alto — Charming 1924 home close to
amiglani@apr.com
Redwood City — Tuscan Villa. 4 bedroom 4
bath Italian chateau with outdoor pool. Chefs
kitchen with granite counter tops. French doors,
lrg mater suite. Views of bay.
$1,495,000
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downtown on a 7500+/- sq ft lot. 3bd/1.5ba with
remodeled kitchen. Garage converted to a sun
filled workshop with full bathroom.
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Alan Dunckel
650-543-1066
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650.543.1074
adunckel@apr.com
San Carlos — Rare opportunity w/22,000+/- sq
John Forsyth James
650-218-4337
john.james@apr.com
ft lot. Beautiful hill view. The 3bd/2ba home,
LR/DR combo, separate FR, eat in kitchen. San
Carlos schools.
Palo Alto — Totally remodeled 3bd/1ba home
Derk Brill
650.543.1117
dbrill@apr.com
in the heart of Green Gables. The perfect family
home for those wanting to reside in Duveneck
School District. www.16tulip.com
$1,389,000
SOLD
Ali Rad
Jennifer Buenrostro
650-543-1105
arad@apr.com
650-224-9539
jbuenrostro@apr.com
Palo Alto — Located on tree-lined street in
Denise Simons
650-269-0210
dsimons@apr.com
midtown, this charming 3bd/2ba home has been
updated and meticulously maintained, Gunn
high school district.
Palo Alto — Charming and remodeled 3
Nancy Mott
650-255-2325
nmott@apr.com
bdrm,1 ba home on a charming tree-lined street
beautiful Green Gables. Great location close to
schools, parks and libraries.
$1,275,000
SOLD
Shari Ornstein
650-814-6682
sornstein@apr.con
Carol
Li
650.281.8368
Palo Alto — Quiet location & amazing
upgrades! 3beds, 2.5baths, approx. 2,081sf. End
unit with great privacy, feels like a singlehouse.
Palo Alto — Vintage craftsman 3bd/2ba home
Lynne Mercer
650-543-1000
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cli@apr.com
Suzie Provo
Jeff Stricker
650-465-3800
sprovo@apr.com
650-823-8057
jstricker@apr.com
Palo Alto — Absolutely fabulous remodeled
Nick Granoski
650-269-8556
ngranoski@apr.com
3bd/2ba! Gourmet kitchen, hardwood floors,
abundant storage, spacious rooms. 2 car
garage. Pristine condition.
$1,199,000
with classic touches. French doors, wainscoted
walls, built-in cabinets. Large lot with specimen
trees.
Palo Alto — This nicely updated home is
Steve TenBroeck
650-450-0160
stenbroe@apr.com
situated on a very large 9000+/- sf lot. The light
& bright floor plan includes 3bd/2ba, + a large
living/dining combo.
$1,198,000
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John St. Clair III
650-740-8363
jstclair@apr.com
Colleen
Foraker
650-380-0085
Palo Alto— Quaint, inviting bungalow on a
lovely, quiet street, with 3bedrooms, 1bath, an
office and a loft, ideally located near downtown
Palo Alto!
cforaker@apr.com
Sharon and
George Gerbing
650-543.1083
sgerbing@apr.com
Jeremy
Robinson
650-543-1053
Mt. Carmel — Beautifully landscaped 3
bedroom 2 bath ranch style home situated on
a 9100+/- sq ft lot. Private backyard features a
swimming pool.
Mountain View — Warm inviting home on a
cozy cul-de-sac. Pristine well cared for 3br/2ba 2
car garage. Exc school district. Bonus summer
room. Beautiful gardens.
$950,000
jrobinson@apr.com
Palo Alto — This cozy 3 bedroom 2 baths
Lydia Kou
650-996-0028
Lkou@apr.com
Eichler has 1300 ft of comfortable living space
with an enclosed front courtyard. Floor to
ceiling windows looks out to a private
backyard.
$1,175,000
Greg
Celotti
650-740-1580
San Carlos — First time on market in 40
gcelotti@apr.com
years! Wonderful 4bd/2.5ba home in a great
neighborhood & private, quiet setting. Includes
separate living and family rooms, hardwood
floors, master suite, and large 9,580+/- sf lot.
Ted
Paulin
650-766-6325
Menlo Park — Beautiful home in The Willows
neighborhood. Walk to the market, coffee,
cleaners, yoga & downtown Palo Alto. Large lot
and move-in condition.
Sandy
Harris
650-888-5022
Palo Alto — Great downtown location. This
tpaulin@apr.com
Suzie Provo
650-465-3800
sprovo@apr.com
Palo Alto — Don’t miss this affordable
Nick Granoski
opportunity for this move in condition 3bd, 1ba
on approx. 6000+/- sf lot in Midtown Palo Alto.
$899,000
650-269-8556
ngranoski@apr.com
home is being sold as lot value only. Currently
zoned RM-15. Buyer to confirm with city what
can be done with the property.
$895,000
sharris@apr.com
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Julia Keady
650.400.0100
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Lizbeth
Rhodes
650-543-1066
San Carlos — Beautiful 3bd/2ba charming
home, in White Oaks. Hardwood floor, granite
kitchen, private back yard, 3 car garage, some
bay views. Must see!
$859,000
Michael
Hall
650-465-1651
Palo Alto — Downtown Palo Alto townhouse,
lrhodes@apr.com
1/2 block from University, 2 bedrooms 2 baths.
Large Patio, quiet setting, in rear of complex.
$799,000
mhall@apr.com
Palo Alto — Truly lovely remodeled townhouse
Jennifer Kane
650.543.1052
jkane@apr.com
in popular Los Altos Square. Superior artistic
value, slate patios and walkways, hardwood
floors, gas fireplace, 2bd with 3bd possible, 2.5
baths.
Christy
Giuliacci
650-380-5989
Mountain View — Incredible value!
Spectacular new 4 bd/2.5 ba townhome near
Castro Street shopping & dining. Landscaped
backyard & attached two-car garage. $799,000
Michael
Johnston
650.533.5102
Palo Alto — Everything you need and nothing
Michael
Johnston
650.533.5102
Sunnyvale — Remodeled with designer
touches everywhere including high ceilings with
crown molding, granite kitchen counters and
marble & limestone baths.
$475,000
cgiuliacci@apr.com
Alan Dunckel
650.543.1074
adunckel@apr.com
Palo Alto — Two Bedroom, 1 bath located
Derk Brill
650.543.1117
dbrill@apr.com
in one of Palo Alto’s most unique and family
friendly communities. This wonderful Baron
Park property is the perfect starter home. Palo
Alto’s best value!
$795,000
you don’t. Mornings, walk for an espresso and
the paper. Grow tomatoes and herbs in your
private back yard.
$599,888
mjohnston@apr.com
SOLD
Terry
Rice
650.207.4142
trice@apr.com
Mountain View — Spacious 3 bedroom 2 bath
condo 1500+/- sf. Washer and Dryer in the unit,
swimming pool, close to San Antonio Shopping
center. Los Altos Schools.
$598,000
mjohnston@apr.com
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Priced
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Veronica Weber
At top, Rosalinda Barolome-Barrun selects potatoes at the 2008 grand opening of the East Palo Alto farmers market. Above, a shopper browses the
produce aisles at Mi Pueblo Food Center in East Palo Alto last November.
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n weekend mornings throughout the Midpeninsula, fruit and
vegetable vendors call out from
stalls brimming with small
mountains of fresh produce:
dark-green wavy chard and
lime-green lettuces; orange
carrot bunches arranged like
sentinels; shapely apples and
pears in crimsons and yellows.
Farmers markets are big business, spilling over in downtown
spaces from Redwood City to
Sunnyvale and beyond.
But not in East Palo Alto.
There, despite an arguably
greater need for residents to have
access to fresh vegetables and
fruit, the city’s fledgling East
Palo Alto Community Farmers’
Market is close to shutting down
after only a two-year run.
It’s not the first time that such
an enterprise has failed to gain
traction in the city of 34,000. At
least three other start-up farmers markets debuted in East
Palo Alto in the last 30 years.
All folded.
There were great hopes for
the most recent iteration of the
market when it launched, according to Luisa Buada, CEO
of Ravenswood Family Health
Center, which helped fund the
venture with a Tides Foundation
grant.
The idea came out of a 2006
health roundtable dedicated to
improving East Palo Alto residents’ health and spearheaded
by East Palo Alto City Councilman Ruben Abrica. The group
Veronica Weber
Clara Hartley
grows around 50
collard plants in
her East Palo Alto
backyard garden,
along with mustard
greens, garlic, onions and tomatoes.
Future murky for East Palo Alto’s farmers market,
now scheduled to close b y S u e D r e m a n n
Veronica Weber
Veronica Weber
involved professionals, officials,
residents and nonprofit groups, including Stanford and Lucile Packard
Children’s hospitals, Ravenswood
Family Health Center and San Mateo County Department of Health.
They commissioned a study that
found 27.7 percent of public-school
students in grades 5, 7 and 9 were
obese, according to 2004 data.
They also focused on nutrition as
a key component.
They identified lack of access to
fresh, healthful foods as contributing to residents’ poor health, which
included a high rate of diabetes as
well as obesity.
A farmers market was seen as a
way to provide not only fresh produce but also health education.
It opened with considerable optimism.
But in February, Wolfram Alderson, then-executive director of the
nonprofit charged with running the
enterprise, posted this note on the
market’s website:
“The worst economic downturn
in recent history has impacted nonprofit organizations like Collective
Roots in enormous ways and makes
it challenging — if not impossible
— to sustain the operations of a
financially costly project like the
market,” he wrote.
He went on to say that Collective
Roots welcomed another group to
fund the market; otherwise his nonprofit would seek to promote fresh
produce in another way, perhaps in
Left, East Palo Alto City Councilman Ruben Abrica, at City Hall,
says East Palo Alto will be able to support a farmers market in the
future. Above, Lauretta Bennett, a member of the East Palo Alto
Community Farmers’ Market Organizing Committee, is looking
for new ways to keep the market viable.
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Farmers
market
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tandem with its gardening program
at schools and homes.
East Palo Alto’s market has cost
between $40,000 and $70,000 per
season, with money allocated for
everything from staff time and developing a website to storing tents,
tables and chairs, and fees and taxes
to the city, according to David Kane,
Collective Roots interim executive
director.
‘It’s not a deficit of
support. It’s a deficit
of funding.’
—David Kane, interim executive
director for Collective Roots
A significant amount was spent
on getting the word out, Kane said,
as was encouraging residents to buy
fresh food through the EPA Fresh
Checks program, by which people
receive a $5 produce voucher when
they purchased $5 worth of fresh
fruit and vegetables.
“Our market is costly because we
are not able to collect revenue in the
way farmers markets traditionally
do, through stall fees,” which were
waived in order to entice vendors,
he said.
The market has been supported by
grants, mainly from the Tides Foundation, the Brin Family Foundation
and the Silicon Valley Community
Foundation, he said.
But it’s not just a lack of funding
that has threatened the market’s
viability. Supporters cite numerous other reasons for its probable
demise: cultural customs, lack of a
central downtown, and competition
from more lucrative markets, such
as Mi Pueblo Food Center, which
opened in November.
T
he farmers-market organizers say the venture — hosted
on Sundays from 2 to 5 p.m.
at East Palo Alto City Hall — has
been successful by some measures.
Customers made 14,000 visits
over 58 market days, according to
Alderson.
And the fresh, wholesome food
has gotten to where it’s been needed
most.
For example, Collective Roots
used the market to provide a safetynet for the hungry by accepting government food stamps and WIC (special supplemental nutrition program
for Women, Infants and Children)
vouchers, according to Kane.
Collective Roots also distributed
more than $22,000 in farmersmarket produce to families in need
through the EPA Fresh Checks program, he said.
The market also helped alter
people’s eating habits, according to
Andres Connell, director of Nuestra Casa, a nonprofit organization
helping the city’s Latino immigrant
population.
Nuestra Casa’s English-as-aSecond-Language (ESL) program,
which introduces thematic units to
teach language and culture, used
a market-themed unit to “change
residents’ mindsets to more bodyfriendly ingredients” and away from
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lard and frying foods, he said.
“It’s an awakening process,” he
said.
Then there have been the social
benefits of the weekly gathering
spot.
Rev. Bob Hartley and his wife,
Clara, sold produce from their backyard garden at the market last year.
More than just vegetables will be
missed, Clara Hartley said.
Hartley said the farmers market
provided a means for meeting up
with old friends and was a social
conduit for people living in the nearby Runnymede Garden Apartments,
which houses seniors and persons
with disabilities.
“It’s really something for people
to meet up. I met a lot of people.
Some, we hadn’t seen each other for
a year,” she said.
It also helped the seniors to supplement their income, she said.
“We sold everything we could
raise,” she said.
Saree Mading, a Collective Roots
board member, said shopping at Mi
Pueblo is not the same as her forays
to the farmers market.
“It was a nice time to get out and
walk and get my fruits and flowers.
I didn’t have to spend money in another area. You see the same faces
there each week and you catch up.
It’s about the relationships that are
built,” she said.
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ut financially, the farmers
market was non-sustaining,
according to Alderson.
At its height, the market could
only muster four or five produce
vendors and a couple of sporadically
attending food trucks and artisans,
he said. Roughly 260 people attended weekly during the six-month
season from June to December.
In comparison, when the Downtown Palo Alto Farmers Market
started in 1981 it attracted 800
people on the first day. The downtown market now has 50 vendors
and hundreds of patrons, according
to its website.
‘It’s not how many
people come but how
much they spend.’
— Linda Sharg,
a vendor at the California Avenue
Farmers Market in Palo Alto
Farmers at East Palo Alto’s market
didn’t make enough money to pay
for stalls, so that fee was waived.
Buada said Ravenswood Family
Health provided $80,000 for two
years running to support the market
out of a Tides Foundation grant the
center received. But it is unlikely
another grant could be obtained to
keep the market going if so much
money couldn’t get it off the ground
in two years.
Alderson said he couldn’t attract
farmers to set up stands in the city
because many said they were already committed to farmers markets
elsewhere.
Linda Sharg, a vendor at the California Avenue Farmers Market in
Palo Alto, said the underlying reason keeping vendors away from East
Palo Alto is economic.
“It’s not how many people come
but how much they spend,” said
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Sharg, who works with Heirloom
Organics, a Hollister-based specialty-greens business.
Farmers want to go where they
can get the most money for their efforts to recoup their sizeable outlay
of expenses: labor, gas and travel,
she said. Palo Alto and Menlo Park
offer clientele who want the more
exotic specialty produce and are
willing to pay a higher price.
Some people in East Palo Alto
suspect those prices have kept the
market from building a customer
base.
Buada, of Ravenswood Family
Health Center, recalled that the first
time she learned of organic produce
she was outraged by the higher
prices.
In East Palo Alto, especially with
a high-unemployment rate, residents
are looking for value, she said.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;We can sit there and tell people
to eat five fruits and vegetables a day
but they are limited by money and
working several jobs,â&#x20AC;? she said.
Cultural attitudes about food and
shopping habits also affected how
people responded to the farmers
market, Buada said. In the cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s
June 2007 health profile, 64 percent of survey respondents said at
least one family member was for-
eign born.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;In many countries, in the Pacific
Islands and Latin America, people
go to outdoor markets where they
get the cheapest vegetables because
there is no middleman. Here, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the
reverse. You go to a farmers market and pay more than in a grocery
store. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s illogical,â&#x20AC;? she said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;There
is not the cultural appreciation.â&#x20AC;?
Abrica said the farmers market also has competition from the
cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s underground economy, which
reflects the custom of how people
often bought food in their native
countries.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;On any given day little trucks
drive into neighborhoods, roll down
the back and itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s like a farmers market right in the truck. The trucks
are coming to peopleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s homes,â&#x20AC;? he
said.
Then thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the location of the
market, at the back of the City Hall
parking lot. Its low-visibility has
limited the number of customers,
Buada and others said.
Abrica agreed, saying that the lack
of a centralized downtown makes it
challenging for such an enterprise.
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Economic feasibility studies completed when Mi Pueblo Food Center planned to open a full-service
supermarket showed the city could
sustain a second supermarket in 10
years, he said. Such statistics indicate a farmers market could survive
if the right conditions were created,
he said.
Kane said all across the country
communities are able to support
a full-service grocery store and a
farmers market, and he thinks East
Palo Alto can do the same thing.
He disagreed with speculation
that Mi Pueblo reduced the farmers
marketâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s clientele. In the two final
months of the market, attendance
was higher than in the first year of
operations, even with the presence
of the supermarket, he said.
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deficit of funding,â&#x20AC;? he said.
Now the East Palo Alto Community Farmersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Market Organizing
Committee â&#x20AC;&#x201D; a group of residents,
gardeners and health professionals
â&#x20AC;&#x201D; are looking for new ways to keep
the market open and vibrant.
One possibility is to pool the produce from backyard gardens, Clara
Hartley said.
About 20 people are part of the
East Palo Alto Backyard Garden
Network, which links backyard
food producers who share ideas,
gardening tips and other agricultural knowledge, she said. The network
is organized and aided by Collective
Roots.
Lauretta Bennett, another resident, said proponents plan to meet
and brainstorm. The group is looking at trying to find someone to take
ownership of the market or approach
local hospitals for funding as part of
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Susan Grifﬁths Jones passed
away peacefully on Saturday,
March 6, 2010. Susan, one of the
“Grifﬁths Girls” was the second
daughter of Ann and John Grifﬁths,
of Palo Alto, CA. Susan attended
Crescent Park Elementary, Jordan
Middle School and graduated
from Palo Alto High School in
1977. After studying at San Diego
State, Susan took on a number
of entrepreneurial opportunities.
She was best known for her legal delivery service, known
as “S-cargot.” Susan’s ability to work her way into crowded
courtrooms or closed-door attorney’s meetings, to ensure on
time deliveries, was legendary.
Susan married Rick Jones in 1990, and together they had
two wonderful children, Ryan John Robert Jones and Kelley
Ann Jones, whom she loved dearly.
Susan will always be remembered for her vibrant
personality, quick wit and incredible sense of humor. She
always saw the lighter side of life and was never afraid to
poke a little fun at whatever situation presented itself. No
one, including herself, was immune to a “Susan-ism”.
From her high school days as The Little Vike team mascot,
to holding court at a family dinner, Susan was always at
her best in a social environment. She loved a party, loved
to party, and with her infectious laugh, could bring out a
smile in everyone she ran across. In fact, she usually had
everyone in tears from laughing so hard at one of her “pearls
of wisdom” concerning how easy it is to enjoy life.
All those who loved her so will miss Susan’s kind,
compassionate, always helpful, always inclusive nature.
Susan was predeceased by her father, John Richard
Grifﬁths. She is survived by her mother, Ann Grifﬁths; her
husband, Rick Jones; her children, Ryan and Kelley Jones;
her sisters, Jennifer Morrissey, Natalie Richardson and Ann
Elizabeth “Bizzy” Grifﬁths; and her dear friends Kevin King,
James Davidson, and many, many more.
Susan’s philanthropic activities included volunteering
her time to help the elderly. Donations on behalf of Susan
Grifﬁths Jones may be made to the Peninsula Volunteers,
an organization dedicated to support the welfare of senior
members of our community, 800 Middle Avenue, Menlo
Park, CA 94025.
A celebration of Susan’s life will be held on Saturday,
March 13, 2010.
Please email jenmorr@gmail.com or natalierichardson@
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the public-health strategy for healthful eating, she said.
Bennett said she became involved
with the farmers market after attending a San Mateo County Health
Department meeting on the topic.
“We were devastated,” she said
of hearing about the market’s likely
closure.
Among other possible futures: A
market composed more of backyard
farmers. In smaller communities
where residents have less disposable income, viable markets offer
non-certified crops or more local
neighborhood growers, according
to Sharg, the California Avenue
vendor. In San Francisco, where she
lives, the Alemany, Fillmore and
Civic Center markets offer lowerpriced produce, she said.
At the very least, Abrica has
hopes that the next generation of
East Palo Alto residents, largely
including those born in the United
States who do not have the agricultural backgrounds of their parents,
will support a farmers market.
Buada said that assessment has
some basis. In Oakland, where second and third generations born of
immigrants are now coming of age,
there is a willingness to try other
less-familiar foods, she said.
The next time around, the farmers market could also get more direct support from city government,
Abrica said.
The city has been looking into
ways to incorporate a healthy-community policy into the city’s strategic plans. A farmers market could
play a part.
For now, “There are lots of pieces
floating around and no one really
has the answer,” he said. N
Staff Writer Sue Dremann can be
e-mailed at sdremann@paweekly.
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Visitors to the grand opening
of the East Palo Alto Community Farmers’ Market in 2008
pick and choose from a variety
of fresh produce. Photograph
by David Cenzer.
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Nancy Hom
has chronicled
Bay Area colors
and communities
in her prints
by Rebecca Wallace
he politics of identity were big
in the 1970s: Who are you?
What’s your ethnicity? Who’s
your community? Fresh out of art
school, China native Nancy Hom
leapt into chronicling the colors, issues and events of San Francisco in
silkscreen.
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“I tried to see the commonality
of my identity with other communities that have struggled for social
justice,” she wrote in an artist’s
statement. “I painted murals with
Latina artists, mounted exhibits for
an African-American gallery, protested with Filipino tenants in Manilatown, silkscreened posters at
Mission Grafica and in Japantown,
danced in Carnaval ...”
All the while, Hom was falling for
the vivid hues of silkscreen prints.
In those days, oil-based inks were
more common than today’s waterbased inks, which she finds less vibrant. And in a non-digital world,
silkscreen prints were some of the
easiest media to reproduce.
“It’s a very democratic medium,”
Hom said in an interview, laughing.
“I liked that aspect of it.”
These days, a show of the San
Francisco artist’s work, hung at
Stanford Art Spaces, is like a Bay
Area history in silkscreen. Many of
the pieces hail from decades past
and promote events or causes, such
as her exuberant Carnaval posters,
and a 1980 print for International
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Soaring in silkscreen
Left: Nancy Hom’s silkscreen
print “Dancer With Birds” (photographed behind glass in the
current exhibition). Above: One
of many Hom’s posters advertising
community events.
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ith 16 childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s books to her credit, Palo Alto
illustrator Christy Hale has expanded her horizons: Her latest book is her first as both author
and illustrator.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;The East-West House: Noguchiâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Childhood in Japan,â&#x20AC;? a picture-book biography, focuses on the early
years of Japanese-American sculptor, designer and landscape architect Isamu Noguchi (1904-1988). It looks
at his experience as a biracial child in Japan, and his
growing creativity.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;Isamu never felt he belonged anywhere,â&#x20AC;? Hale said.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;He was a fascinating person, so mercurial, and his
work life spanned more than six decades.â&#x20AC;?
â&#x20AC;&#x153;The East-West Houseâ&#x20AC;? has proved to be a highlight
of Haleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s work life as well. It has garnered high praise,
including being named as one of the best childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s
books of 2009 by the book-review journal Kirkus Reviews, where it was described as â&#x20AC;&#x153;a welcome entrĂŠe to
one artistâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s inspiration, aspiration and imagination.â&#x20AC;?
(Another local on the Kirkus Reviews list is Palo
Altoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Betsy Franco, chosen for her book â&#x20AC;&#x153;Zero Is the
Leaves on the Tree.â&#x20AC;?)
While Hale was creating â&#x20AC;&#x153;The East-West House,â&#x20AC;?
what particularly stuck in her mind was the influence
of Noguchiâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s lonely, peripatetic childhood in Japan with
his European-American mother, after his Japanese father left them to start a new family. Spurned or teased by
other children because of his different looks and Western dress, the young Isamu â&#x20AC;&#x153;looked inside and looked to
the natural world,â&#x20AC;? Hale said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;His mother ... taught him
botany, exposed him to art, gardening, and saw early on In her Palo Alto home, Christy Hale uses a paper
that he got pleasure from working with his hands. She puncher to create flowers and leaves for her book ilwanted him to have an opportunity to meld his dual lustrations.
heritage.â&#x20AC;?
as author as well as illustrator, she has been preparThis wish culminated in the building of a house with ing to write a book for a long time â&#x20AC;&#x201D; possibly since
both Eastern and Western features on an abandoned winning an honorable mention in the California State
piece of coastal land in Japan â&#x20AC;&#x201D; an experience that Poetry Contest while she was at Paly. Among other writprofoundly affected the young Isamu, and became the ing workshops, she has attended poetry classes through
central metaphor of Haleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s new book. Though only 8 Stanfordâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Continuing Studies program, and feels that
years old, Isamu helped to design, supervise and even poetry is very much connected with childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s books.
build elements of the house.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;Youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re working towards an essence,â&#x20AC;? Hale said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;PoLater, he returned to the United States where he was etry is very visual, and a picture book has very little lanborn, becoming successful in several fields. For ex- guage. So you think through sound, patterns and rhythm
ample, he was a stage designer for choreographer Mar- as you do in poetry, even if youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re aiming for prose. I
tha Graham for 30 years, and worked with visionary wanted the language of my book to be very spare and
architect Buckminster Fuller, and the Noguchi Museum open.â&#x20AC;? In addition, Noguchiâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s father was a poet, and
in New York is dedicated to his work. Today, his work his own work often expresses a stark simplification of
is still sought after, as evidenced by the recent unveiling forms, she said.
of a Noguchi sculpture at Stanfordâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Cantor Arts Center.
The qualities of simplicity and elegance are reflected
Yet despite his later success both in the United States in the soulful illustrations for â&#x20AC;&#x153;East-West House,â&#x20AC;? which
and Japan, the source of his creativity was always his capture a Japanese sensibility in terms of design yet
â&#x20AC;&#x153;longing for affiliation,â&#x20AC;? Noguchi once said.
have an originality that is all Haleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s own. One aspect is
Hale moved to Palo Alto from Massachusetts at age Haleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s unusual choice of materials. The subtly colored
10, which coincidentally was the year she decided she and textured backgrounds come from such materials
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trator. She graduated from Palo Alto High School and
earned fine-arts and masterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s
degrees in teaching at Lewis
& Clark College in Oregon.
She later lived in New York,
receiving a degree in illustration and design at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, but moved
back to Palo Alto with her
husband and young daughter
in 2001 after finding â&#x20AC;&#x153;burnt
papers from the twin towers
on our front stoop.â&#x20AC;?
â&#x20AC;&#x153;My own version of EastWest was a different one,â&#x20AC;? she
said, but included loneliness
as well.
Haleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s bi-coastal career has
been long and full. She has
been an art teacher, designer
and art director for several
New York publishers, and a
curriculum designer for educational publisher Scholasticâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s
Instructor magazine.
Though â&#x20AC;&#x153;The East-West An original page from Haleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s book â&#x20AC;&#x153;The East-West House,â&#x20AC;? showing her
Houseâ&#x20AC;? is Haleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s first book multi-textured approach.
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Silkscreen
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Tuesday, March 16, 2010, 6:30 PM
Illustrating life
(continued from page 30)
as shelf paper, Whole Foods Market
grocery bags, and paper she crafted
from castoffs, such as â&#x20AC;&#x153;an old gray
Burberry coat.â&#x20AC;?
Collage elements are culled from
business-envelope liners and rubbings taken from the weathered
back step leading into Haleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s garden.
These textures and patterns evoke
sky, water, wood bark, pathways
and fabrics, sometimes echoing Noguchiâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s brush paintings. By carving
shapes of leaves and blossoms from
the tops of gum erasers, she has conjured the effects of the modern Japanese woodblocks that she admires.
This kind of resourcefulness has
been a strength for Hale, leading
her to innovate in unexpected ways.
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Stanford, CA 94305
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improvements designed to further enhance the California
Avenue area, from El Camino Real to the CalTrain Depot.
Bob Hsiang
Womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Day that features one
womanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s uplifted face and the slogan â&#x20AC;&#x153;Working Women: We can shut
this country down.â&#x20AC;?
Homâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s serigraphs are being shown
with Larry Richardsonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s paintings
and mixed-media works, many dealing with his African heritage; and
Susan Goldsmithâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s dreamy, layered
mixed-media images of trees. Stanford Art Spaces exhibitions show art
mainly in the halls of the Paul G.
Allen Center for Integrated Systems,
but there are some other pieces up in
the David Packard Electrical Engineering building and Building 420
(the Psychology Office).
The artworks of Hom and Richardson share a particular kinship when
they make powerful statements about
race. For instance, Richardsonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x153;To
Be Sold,â&#x20AC;? a dramatic painting about
slavery that depicts a black man behind an old advertisement for a slave
sale, is displayed across from Homâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s
stark 1996 print â&#x20AC;&#x153;No More Violence
Against Asians.â&#x20AC;?
The Hom work has an openmouthed face looking at bullet holes
and small red splashes of blood. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s
done mostly in silkscreen, but Hom
used paint for the splashes, she said.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;It just seemed like a very immediate, sudden violent act, as opposed
to carefully drawing the blood and
screening it. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a different mindset when you create it, and then the
viewer will feel it.â&#x20AC;?
Hom said the print drew its painful inspiration from violence against
Asians in the Bay Area and in other
parts of the country, particularly the
1982 Detroit beating death of a Chinese-American man whose white
killers had allegedly blamed the
Japanese for the declining American auto industry.
Another powerful piece in the
Stanford show is the 1985 silkscreen
â&#x20AC;&#x153;A Future For Our Children,â&#x20AC;? which
shows Homâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 3-year-old daughter
looking lost in front of a beach-like
scene with a mushroom cloud. Hom
created the piece as part of a multiartist calendar project opposing
nuclear war.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;I chose August,â&#x20AC;? she said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It was
the month of Hiroshima.â&#x20AC;?
During her career, the Pratt Institute
graduate has been active in developing
neighborhood arts organizations. Her
work with the Kearny Street Work-
Hom, right, is showing her work at Stanford Art Spaces with fellow
artists Larry Richardson and Susan Goldsmith. The three were photographed at the exhibit reception.
Homâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s silkscreen print â&#x20AC;&#x153;Celebration of the Spirit.â&#x20AC;?
shop, which promotes and produces
Asian-American arts in San Francisco,
stretches back 30 years and includes
an eight-year stint as executive director. In 2003, she was granted a KQED
Local Hero award. Hom has also
written poetry and prose, and been a
graphic designer and an illustrator of
childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s books.
Many of her works feel less political and more family-oriented and
gentle, including a series of motherand-baby prints. In 1982â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x153;Mother
and Child,â&#x20AC;? a woman smiles serenely as she feeds her infant. The piece
was part of a campaign to encourage
Seeing waste materials as a potential resource â&#x20AC;&#x153;allows everything to
become a possibility,â&#x20AC;? she said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We
were always really poor,â&#x20AC;? she added,
referring to her childhood, â&#x20AC;&#x153;and one
year as a teacher I had a $400 budget. All that is a great advantage.â&#x20AC;?
Hale shares her ideas as an art
director through articles and teaching guides, and as an instructor and
presenter at local schools, where she
speaks on creating and publishing
a childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s book. Her books often
present curriculum tie-ins and multicultural themes that make them
popular with teachers and librarians. She says these come easily;
her interest in other cultures was
awakened early by a visit to Oaxaca,
a Palo Alto sister city in Mexico,
while she was a Paly student.
In â&#x20AC;&#x153;Elizabetiâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Dollâ&#x20AC;? by Stephanie Stuve-Bodeen, and its sequels,
teen mothers to get proper prenatal
health care. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a straightforward
image with graceful lines, like much
of Homâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s art.
Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s part of what attracted Stanford Art Spaces curator Marilyn
Grossman to Homâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s work when she
first saw it in the Chinese Culture
Center of San Francisco.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;I liked the purity of her work,â&#x20AC;?
she said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s so simple, but it really
grasps you.â&#x20AC;?
Several of the prints on exhibit,
like â&#x20AC;&#x153;No More Violence Against
Asians,â&#x20AC;? incorporate some paint,
and these days Hom is working
more pastels and paint. And harking back to her early Carnaval days,
sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s pursuing salsa, swing and
blues dance.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve always gravitated toward the
things that interest me,â&#x20AC;? she said.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;Art and performance and just the
joy of community life.â&#x20AC;? N
Meeting hosted by
City of Palo Alto Public Works
(650) 329-2151
NOTICE OF CITY COUNCIL
STUDY SESSION
ON HIGH SPEED RAIL PROJECT
Date: Monday, March 15, 2010
Time: 7:00 PM
Venue: Council Chambers
1ST Floor, City Hall
250 Hamilton Avenue, Palo Alto
General update and status report on
High Speed Rail activities.
What: Silkscreen prints by Nancy Hom, shown with mixed-media works by Susan Goldsmith
and paintings and mixed-media
art by Larry Richardson
Where: Stanford Art Spaces gallery; works are shown mainly in
the Paul G. Allen Center for Integrated Systems at 420 Via Palou
on campus.
When: Through April 15. Buildings are open weekdays from
8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Cost: Free
Info: Go to cis.stanford.edu/~
marigros or call 650-725-3622.
Haleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s illustrations of family life in
Tanzania won accolades. She also
got to exercise her skill at rendering
faces in all their variety in â&#x20AC;&#x153;Youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re
Not My Real Motherâ&#x20AC;? by Molly
Friedrich, a story that celebrates
transracial adoption.
In her next book, Hale hopes to
take the architectural theme farther,
â&#x20AC;&#x153;juxtaposing the way children build
and works by contemporary international architects,â&#x20AC;? and further
exploring the theme with concrete
poetry, in architectural shapes. This
is still in the development stage, but
Hale is clearly raring to go.
Ever the educator, she adds:
â&#x20AC;&#x153;Building is considered absolutely
essential for early-childhood education.â&#x20AC;? N
Info: For more about Christy Haleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s
work, go to christyhale.com.
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OPENINGS
Green Zone --
(Century 16, Century 20) Chief
Warrant Officer Roy Miller could
teach Sarah Palin a thing or two
about â&#x20AC;&#x153;going rogueâ&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x201D; assuming he
lives long enough to tell the tale.
In 2003 Baghdad, Miller and
his unit are charged with rooting
out weapons of mass destruction.
Burned three straight times, Miller
complains that he and his men have
been risking their lives on bad intel.
So when his team happens on some
first-hand intelligence about fugitive
General Al Rawi (Igal Naor), Miller
defies orders to chase down the truth
about the WMDs that predicated the
Iraq War. With that, action thriller
â&#x20AC;&#x153;Green Zoneâ&#x20AC;? is off to the races.
Those naysayers who questioned
the appropriation of the Iraq War
for entertainment purposes in the
newly minted Best Picture â&#x20AC;&#x153;The
Hurt Lockerâ&#x20AC;? will have a cow over
the latest collaboration of star Matt
Damon and director Paul Greengrass (â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Bourne Supremacy,â&#x20AC;?
â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Bourne Ultimatumâ&#x20AC;?). Unlike
â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Hurt Lockerâ&#x20AC;? (incidentally,
also shot by cinematographer Barry Ackroyd), â&#x20AC;&#x153;Green Zoneâ&#x20AC;? shows
little interest in characterization,
instead assembling clunky narrative machinery that amounts to an
action-packed fiction remake of
Charles Fergusonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 2007 doc â&#x20AC;&#x153;No
End in Sightâ&#x20AC;? (rather, the film cites
as â&#x20AC;&#x153;inspirationâ&#x20AC;? Rajiv Chandrasekaranâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 2006 non-fiction book â&#x20AC;&#x153;Imperial Life in the Emerald City.â&#x20AC;?
In some ways, the story here â&#x20AC;&#x201D;
like Greengrassâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; acclaimed â&#x20AC;&#x153;United
93â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x201D; seems â&#x20AC;&#x153;too soonâ&#x20AC;? for useful
perspective; in other respects, it
already feels like old news. Given
what we know about WMDs, how
can â&#x20AC;&#x153;Green Zoneâ&#x20AC;? be anything other
than two hours of anticlimax? As
Miller, Damon does his best to be
a sterling, steely distraction from
the scriptâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s deficiencies, but even he
canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t make credible the preposterous
loose cannon heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s asked to play.
The script, credited to rewriter
Brian Helgeland (â&#x20AC;&#x153;L.A. Confidentialâ&#x20AC;?), serves up soldiers, spies,
politicians, reporters and Iraqi civilians who speak almost entirely in
clichĂŠs. Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Brendan Gleeson
as Martin Brown, the CIAâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Baghdad bureau chief (who tells Miller,
â&#x20AC;&#x153;Youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re right. This thing doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t add
upâ&#x20AC;?). Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Greg Kinnear as Paul
Bremner stand-in Clark Poundstone, a Pentagon rep who spars
with Brown and Miller. Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s
Amy Ryan as suckered Wall Street
Journal reporter Lawrie Dayne (read
Judith Miller), whose articles on the
intel of mysterious source â&#x20AC;&#x153;Magellanâ&#x20AC;? stoked political support for the
invasion. And thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Freddy (Khalid Abdalla of â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Kite Runnerâ&#x20AC;?),
a shudderingly angry yet noble local who agrees to help Miller while
reminding him, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not for you to
decide what happens here.â&#x20AC;?
Audiences have already proven
time and time again that they see
nothing escapist in the Iraq War, so
why did Greengrass go there, bringing his signature shaky cam? Presumably to get away with telling an
â&#x20AC;&#x153;importantâ&#x20AC;? story in the guise of a
popcorn picture. But â&#x20AC;&#x153;Green Zoneâ&#x20AC;?
is tired and corny â&#x20AC;&#x201D; not meaningful â&#x20AC;&#x201D; and frantic in its action rather
than genuinely exciting. Despite his
ever-impressive command of miseen-scĂ¨ne (best demonstrated by an
opening sequence that gives us an
insider perspective on the bombing of Baghdad), Greengrass deals
a bad hand from his deck of Iraq
War playing cards. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Green Zoneâ&#x20AC;?
is a study in futility, in more ways
than one.
Rated R for violence and language. One hour, 55 minutes.
â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Peter Canavese
Remember Me -
(Century 16, Century 20) Twihards, start your engines. Those
on â&#x20AC;&#x153;Team Edwardâ&#x20AC;? will swoon for
â&#x20AC;&#x153;Remember Me,â&#x20AC;? a romantic drama
starring and executive-produced by
Robert Pattinson. For those noninitiates who donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t recognize the
â&#x20AC;&#x153;Twilightâ&#x20AC;? jargon, discreetly begin
backing away.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;Remember Meâ&#x20AC;? is engineered to
make teen and tween girls giggle,
swoon and weep. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s only slightly
edgier and no more sensible than a
Nicholas Sparks story, but it does
build to the mother of all tragic rugpullers (which viewers not blinded
by Twi-life will see coming all the
way up Liberty Street). The story
opens in 1991 Brooklyn, where
11-year-old Alyssa Craig witnesses
her motherâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s death. Ten years later,
Ally (Emilie de Ravin of â&#x20AC;&#x153;Lostâ&#x20AC;?)
is a New York University student
prone to falling for a man who understands personal loss.
Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d be Tyler Hawkins (Pattinson), also 21, a â&#x20AC;&#x153;brooding introvertâ&#x20AC;?
who always smells of beer and
cigarettes and unfulfilled potential.
His Bohemian odor cannot hide his
sensitive soul, proven in his loving
attentions to his equally sensitive,
11-year-old (ah, the symmetry!)
sister Caroline (a precocious Ruby
Jerins). They and their divorced parents (Pierce Brosnan and Lena Olin)
live in the shadow of Tylerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s older
brother, who committed suicide.
Tyler and Ally meet in a way never seen outside of a romantic movie:
Tyler makes a move at the behest of
his obnoxious roomie, who has visions of prankish revenge against
Allyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s father, the gruff cop (Chris
Cooper) who just hauled the boys
in on drunk and disorderly charges.
Would you believe that Tyler and
Ally wind up in love, and that the
truth of how they met will eventually threaten â&#x20AC;&#x201D; zzzzzzzzz ... Oh,
wha â&#x20AC;&#x201D; sorry. Yes, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll finish the
review.
With the full support of first-time
screenwriter Will Fetters, Pattinson
does his best James Dean. Smoldering bad-boy poses? Check. Angry,
emotionally intoxicated rants at
Dad? Check. Jokey declaration of
â&#x20AC;&#x153;whatta you got?â&#x20AC;? rebellion? Check.
(Ally: â&#x20AC;&#x153;I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t date sociology majors.â&#x20AC;? Tyler: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Lucky for you Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m
undecided.â&#x20AC;? Ally: â&#x20AC;&#x153;About what?â&#x20AC;?
Tyler: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Everything.â&#x20AC;?) Though he
can be volatile (like Allyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s dad â&#x20AC;&#x201D;
go figure), Tyler is also a thinker:
He holds down a job at the Strand
when heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not quoting Gandhi or
scribbling in his notebook. All in
all, he just feels more than the most
of us, yâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;know?
Pattinson does well with what
heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s given, but the contrivances
compound, and after a while, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s
apparent that the movie isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t very
interested in Ally, after all (de
Ravinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s vacuousness doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t help).
Though requisite to make the movie
a romance, sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s poorly drawn and
fades out of the plot as the Hawkins
family drama takes precedence.
Absent a careful balance between
the leading characters, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Remember
Meâ&#x20AC;? might have been better off as
a family drama rather than a romance. Brosnan does good work
as the workaholic businessman so
damaged that he comes off pridefully aloof (for that matter, Cooper
is flawless as Allyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s pained father).
In short, let me bogart the movieâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s
â&#x20AC;&#x153;carpe diemâ&#x20AC;? message: Seize something other than this movie.
Rated PG-13 for violence, sexual
content, language and smoking.
One hour, 53 minutes.
â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Peter Canavese
To view the trailers for â&#x20AC;&#x153;Green
Zoneâ&#x20AC;? and â&#x20AC;&#x153;Remember Me,â&#x20AC;? go to
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MOVIE TIMES
A Prophet (R) (((1/2
Palo Alto Square: 1:30, 4:45 & 8 p.m.
A Single Man (R) ((((
Guild: 3:15 & 8:30 p.m.
Alice in Wonderland
(PG) ((
3:05, 4:30, 5:50, 7:15, 8:35 & 9:55 p.m. Century 20: Noon, 1:20, 2:40, 4:05, 5:20, 6:40, 8:05, 9:25 &
Century 16: 11:40 a.m.; 1, 2:25, 3:45, 5:10, 6:30, 7:55, 9:15 & 10:30 p.m.; In 3D at 11 a.m.; 12:20, 1:35,
10:45 p.m.; In 3D at 11:15 a.m.; 12:45, 2, 3:20, 4:45, 6, 7:30, 8:45 & 10:10 p.m.
Avatar (PG-13) (((
Century 16: 11:55 a.m.; 3:25, 7 & 10:25 p.m. Century 20: In 3D at 12:35, 4:20 & 8 p.m.
The Bad Sleep Well
Stanford Theatre: Wed 7:30 p.m. Thu 7:30 p.m.
(1960) (Not Rated) (Not Reviewed)
Brooklynâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Finest
(R) ((1/2
Century 16: 1:05, 4:05, 7:05 & 10:05 p.m. Century 20: 11:35 a.m.; 1:05, 2:45, 4:10, 5:50, 7:10, 8:55 &
10:15 p.m.
Cop Out (R) ((
Century 16: 11:20 a.m.; 4:45 & 10:20 p.m. Century 20: 11:50 a.m.; 2:35, 5:10, 7:55 & 10:30 p.m.
The Crazies (R)
(Not Reviewed)
Century 20: 11:40 a.m.; 2:30, 4:55, 7:25 & 10:05 p.m.
Crazy Heart (R) (((
Century 16: 11:10 a.m.; 1:50, 4:25, 7:25 & 10 p.m. Century 20: 11:30 a.m.; 2:10, 4:45, 7:20 & 9:55 p.m.
The Ghost Writer
(PG-13) (((1/2
Century 20: Fri-Thu 11:25 a.m.; 1, 2:20, 3:55, 5:15, 6:55, 8:10 & 9:50 p.m.
Palo Alto Square: 1:25, 4:20 & 7:15 p.m. Fri. 7 Sat. also at 10:10 p.m.
Green Zone (R)
Century 16: 11:30 a.m.; 12:50, 2:10, 3:30, 4:50, 6:15, 7:30, 8:55 & 10:10 p.m. Century 20: 11:35 a.m.;
12:55, 2:20, 3:40, 5:05, 6:25, 7:50, 9:10 & 10:35 p.m.
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The Hidden Fortress
Stanford Theatre: Sat 3 & 7:30 p.m. Sun 3 & 7:30 p.m. Mon 7:30 p.m. Tue 7:30 p.m.
(1958) (Not Rated) (Not Reviewed)
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High and Low (1963)
Stanford Theatre: Fri 7:30 p.m.
(Not Rated) (Not Reviewed)
The Hurt Locker
(R) (((1/2
Aquarius: 2:30, 5:30 & 8:30 p.m.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;A SWEEPING ROMANTIC
MASTERPIECE.â&#x20AC;?
I Live in Fear (1955)
Stanford Theatre: Fri 5:35 & 10:05 p.m.
(Not Rated) (Not Reviewed)
The Last Station (R) ((1/2 Century 20: 11:20 a.m.; 5:05 & 10:35 p.m. Guild: 6 p.m. Fri.-Sun. also at 12:30 p.m.
Lord, Save Us from Your Aquarius: 2, 4:30, 7 & 9:30 p.m.
Followers (PG-13) (Not Reviewed)
Our Family Wedding
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Century 16: Noon, 2:30, 4:55, 7:20 & 9:45 p.m. Century 20: 11:25 a.m.; 1:55, 4:25, 7 & 9:30 p.m.
Percy Jackson & the
Century 16: 12:45, 3:50, 6:50 & 9:35 p.m. Century 20: 11:10 a.m.; 1:55, 4:40, 7:35 & 10:20 p.m.
Olympians: The Lightning Thief (PG) (Not Reviewed)
Remember Me (PG-13)
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Century 16: 11:05 a.m.; 1:40, 4:20, 7:10 & 9:50 p.m. Century 20: 11:10 a.m.; 1:50, 4:30, 7:15 & 9:55
p.m.
Sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Out of My League
(R) (Not Reviewed)
Century 16: 11:15 a.m.; 12:30, 1:45, 3, 4:15, 5:30, 6:45, 8, 9:20 & 10:30 p.m. Century 20: 11:45 a.m.;
2:25, 5, 7:40 & 10:25 p.m.
Shutter Island (R) (((
Century 16: 12:35, 3:40, 6:55 & 10:15 p.m. Century 20: 12:20, 3:45, 7:05 & 10:20 p.m.
Throne of Blood (1957)
Stanford Theatre: Wed 5:30 & 9:55 p.m. Thu 5:30 & 9:55 p.m. 5:30 & 9:55 p.m.
(Not Rated) (Not Reviewed)
Valentineâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Day
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Century 16: 1:55 & 7:35 p.m. Century 20: 2 & 7:45 p.m.
Yojimbo (1961)
Stanford Theatre: Sat-Tues 5:30 & 10 p.m.
(Not Rated) (Not Reviewed)
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whose great flair makes it Polanskiâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s
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NORCAL BASKETBALL
Moving on
will be
difficult
NEW COACH . . . The MenloAtherton football team, which
struggled through a 1-9 record
last season and has gone through
three coaches in the past two
seasons, has a new head coach.
Sione Taufoou, 27, who for the
past three seasons has been an
assistant football coach at Menlo
School, will guide the Bears this
fall. Taufoou replaces Tony Rosso,
who lasted only this past season.
Prior to that, Philip Brown finished
up the 2008 season as the interim
head coach after Bob Sykes left
just a few games into the campaign. Taufoou, a San Carlos native and a graduate of St. Francis
High, expects to be around a lot
longer than his predecessors. He
comes from a long line of football
players in his family — Kaoi, Will
and Matt. It’s a family that is highly
regarded in San Mateo County.
Taufoou was the defensive coordinator at Menlo School this past
fall, which saw the Knights reach
the Central Coast Section Small
School Division championship
game for the first time in school
history.
Friday
Women’s basketball: Stanford at
Pac-10 Tournament, 1:15 p.m.; KZSU
(90.1 FM)
Saturday
Women’s basketball: Stanford at
Pac-10 Tournament, 2:30 p.m.; Comcast
Sports Net Bay Area; KZSU (90.1 FM)
Sunday
Women’s basketball: Championship
of Pac-10 Tournament; 3 p.m.; Comcast
Sports Net Bay Area; KZSU (90.1 FM)
Sacred Heart Prep junior Reed McConnell (23) scored 24 points on Tuesday in a 62-50 victory over Wallenberg in a NorCal Division IV first-round playoff game. That earned the Gators a second-round game
Thursday.
(continued on page 35
Pac-10 Player of Year Ogwumike leads
Stanford women into conference tourney
by Rick Eymer
R
egardless of how convincing Stanford coach
Tara VanDerveer can be, the second-ranked
Cardinal (28-1) has clinched a No. 1 seed for
the upcoming NCAA tournament no matter how
it performs in the upcoming Pac-10 tournament.
The odds are Stanford will at least
reach the championship game, having done so in each of the previous
nine conference tournaments, winning seven of them.
Stanford opens the Pac-10 tournament Friday at 1:15 p.m. and will
play either Arizona or Washington
State, which played Thursday night
in the first round.
The Cardinal is attempting to become the first
conference team to go 18-0 in Pac-10 play and capture
the Pac-10 tournament title.
“We have not clinched the automatic berth to the
NCAAs,” VanDerveer said. “I’m pretty sure we’ll get
in but we want to win the tournament and get that
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automatic bid.”
Perhaps the motivation to win the conference tournament is to help sell tickets to the first- and secondround tournament games at Maples Pavilion next
weekend.
“It doesn’t matter what seed a team is,”
VanDerveer said. “It’s that day, that
time and you better show up to
play.”
VanDerveer hopes senior center
Jayne Appel will be showing up at
some point this weekend. The AllAmerican sat out Stanford’s 63-48
victory over California last week
with a foot injury.
“Jayne is out of her boot and she
is walking,” VanDerveer said. “She went swimming and she’s a little sore from that. She’s getting
treatment and we’re hoping it will continue to improve.
It looks a lot better than it did a week ago.”
Appel was part of a contingent of six Stanford players named to various All-Pac-10 teams.
David Gonzales/Stanford Athletics
ON THE AIR
by Keith Peters
our local basketball teams took
the floor on Thursday night in the
second round of the CIF Northern
California playoffs. Only one, however,
was favored to advance to the semifinals on Saturday night.
Since the Pinewood girls are seeded
No. 1 in the Division V playoffs, they
will be favored each night they take the
floor. That doesn’t mean the Panthers
have an easy path to the NorCal final
and state championship game.
In fact, Pinewood’s game against visiting St. Joseph Notre Dame (Alameda)
on Thursday night was expected to the
Panthers’ most difficult of these playoffs.
Pinewood, however, is a veteran
when it comes to the postseason. The
Panthers have missed the NorCal playoffs only once since 1998, that one blip
coming in 2008 when Pinewood failed
to reach the Central Coast Section finals.
The Panthers also have three state
Division V titles to their credit. They
were ranked No. 2 in the state in their
division last week and were No. 1 earlier this season.
Veteran coach Doc Scheppler, who
has guided the program to all three
state crowns, has another talented
team (albeit young). The Panthers
(23-6) took only three seniors into the
NorCal playoffs, one of which (Rachel
Marty) has missed nearly the entire
year with an ACL injury. Seniors Emily Liang and Lauren Taniguchi have
been solid contributors to a squad that
starts four juniors — Kelsey Morehead,
Hailie Eackles, Jenna McLoughlin and
Miranda Seto.
Everyone shoots threes, which
F
Kyle Terada
OF LOCAL NOTE . . . Menlo
School grad Blake Schultz, a
senior basketball standout at Williams College, has been named
winner of the Jostens Trophy. The
award models the Rotary International motto of “Service above
Self” by recognizing those who
truly fit the ideal of the well-rounded Division III student-athlete. The
award recognizes playing ability, academic performance and
community service. A nationwide
committee voted on the 10 finalists for the 2010 Jostens Trophy
that will be presented to Schultz
by the Salem [Va.] Rotary Club
at their luncheon on Thursday,
March 18th at the Salem Civic
Center. . . Palo Alto High junior
Kevin Anderson will continue his
football career close to home after
committing to Stanford recently.
The 6-foot-4, 240-pound Anderson, who carried a 3.8 GPA, was
the 2009 SCVAL Defensive Lineman of the Year while helping the
Vikings win the SCVAL De Anza
Division championship . . . Former
Stanford football All-American
Duncan McColl is on the ballot
for the 2010 College Football Hall
of Fame. McColl, who played defensive end from 1973-76, was a
two-time All-Pac-8 selection and
still holds the school record for
most quarterback sacks (17) in a
season.
Pinewood girls may have
best shot of reaching
a championship game
Stanford’s Nnemkadi Ogwumike is
the Pac-10 Player of the Year.
Pac-10 hoops
(continued from previous page)
Kyle Terada
Sacred Heart Prep’s Reed McConnell (left) and Pat McNamara (5) helped put defensive pressure on Wallenberg during the Gators’ 62-50 victory to open the NorCal Division IV playoffs on Tuesday night.
NorCal basketball
(continued from previous page)
has been a staple for the Panthers
throughout the years. They may not
have much height — McLoughlin
is the tallest at 5-foot-10 — but they
press, help out on defense, create
turnovers and don’t often make the
kind of mistakes that lead to losses.
If Pinewood is still alive after its
second-round game, the Panthers
likely will host No. 4 Branson on
Saturday at 7 p.m. The winner of
that game will advance to the NorCal finals on March 20 at Folsom
High.
It is possible that the NorCal title
game could be an all-local affair.
That depends on No. 3 seed Castilleja (20-9), which opened play
Thursday night at home against
No.6 Head Royce, a 59-36 winner
over Ripon Christian on Tuesday
night.
Castilleja hosted its first-ever NorCal game and, earlier in the day, had
a school-wide pep rally to generate
some added excitement. Ted Minnis,
who is filling in as athletic director
while Jez McIntosh is on sabbatical
(he’s still coaching the basketball
team as an off-campus coach), was
planning on bringing extra bleachers
to accommodate an expected crowd
in excess of 400 last night.
Castilleja reached the NorCal
playoffs last season for the first time
in school history, advancing all the
way to the semifinals before finishing with a 23-9 record — best in
school history.
Like Pinewood, the Gators have
only three seniors on this year’s
team — Eve Zelinger, Tayo Amos
and reserve Natalie Morin. Zelinger
is the school’s all-time leading scorer and will be sorely missed when
this season concludes.
“It’s been great having her,”
McIntosh said of Zelinger. “We’ll
miss her next year.”
Fortunately for McIntosh, he’ll
have junior Natasha von Kaeppler
back. The versatile 6-footer could
wind up holding all the school records before she’s done.
Castilleja not only received a favorable NorCal seed (bracket opposite Pinewood), but its second-round
opponent (Branson) was a familiar
one. The Gators beat Branson in
a tournament finale earlier this
season, 39-36, rallying from eight
points down to win.
If Castilleja was able to duplicate
that triumph, the Gators more than
likely will be on the road Saturday — unless No. 2 seed Bradshaw
Christian (Sacramento) is upset by
University (San Francisco). If University prevailed, Castilleja will host
University on Saturday. Those teams
also have met this season, with the
Gators posting a 68-53 triumph.
Thus, it could be a favorable
bracket for Castilleja, which would
love to reach the NorCal finals and
spend the 2 1/2 hours on the road to
face league rival Pinewood — with
hopes of avenging last Saturday’s
53-32 loss to the Panthers in the
CCS championship game.
From here on in, it’s all about
making the most of opportunities.
That’s what the Sacred Heart Prep
and Pinewood boys did on Tuesday
in their respective NorCal openers.
It took a timely streak of threepoint shooting, some opportunistic
defense and flawless fourth-quarter
free throw shooting for Sacred Heart
Prep to earn its first-ever Division
IV NorCal victory, a 62-50 decision
over visiting Wallenberg. The victory was SHP’s 15th straight.
In Los Altos Hills, Pinewood
made the most if its first NorCal
appearance in 14 years by pulling
away from Bradshaw Christian,
55-42. The No. 8-seeded Panthers
played at No. 1 Branson (22-6) on
Thursday night.
The No. 4-seeded Gators (23-5),
meanwhile, hosted a second round
game Thursday against No. 5 St.
Patrick/St.Vincent (Vallejo), a 65-35
winner over No. 12 Calaveras. The
victory was the first ever for the Gators at the Division IV level. Prep
lost last yearís first-round game and
won once (2005) in three tries at the
Division V level.
The Gators overcame a five-point
deficit in the third quarter with a
long-distance bullseye-shooting run
by the three McConnell brothers.
Down 32-27 midway through the
third, Will McConnell hit a three
and then stole the ball in the backcourt while pressing, making the
ensuing layup to tie the game. Mo-
ments later Cole McConnell buried
a three followed by another trey by
Reed McConnell on the next possession. Cole hit another seconds later
for a 43-35 Prep advantage going
into the fourth quarter.
Sacred Heart Prep made all 13 of
14 free throws in the fourth quarter and Wallenberg did not threaten
again.
Reed McConnell led all scorers
with 24 while Will McConnell added 16. Cole McConnell and Ty Cobb
both had six points. Zach Watterson
led Prep rebounders with five.
The McConnell’s shooting was
fortuitous for the Gators, who were
challenged inside and also experienced trouble taking care of the
ball during the first half. Wallenberg (20-8), the runnerup from San
Franciscoís Academic Athletic Association, was able to successfully
work the ball inside and control
both offense and defensive boards.
The Bulldogs outrebounded the Gators, 24-12.
“That was a little bit of a surprise
to us. They dug in and took the ball
inside and I don’t think we were as
ready as we should have been,” said
SHP coach Tony Martinelli. “We
were a little scattered in the first
half. We took shots early in the possession and had little patience. The
second half was more characteristic
of how we play.”
Sacred Heart pressed Wallenberg
into nine second-half turnovers but
equally important, it settled down
when it had the ball. Sacred Heart
turned the ball over eight times in
the first half but only three times
in the second half when it put the
game away.
The path to the NorCal final is an
extremely difficult one for Sacred
Heart Prep, as a second-round win
would earn a semifinal date with
No. 1 St. Mary’s (Berkeley) on Saturday. St. Mary’s, along with No. 2
Salesian, are considered head and
shoulders about the entire NorCal
Division IV field and either team
could win the state title.
While the Gators aren’t favored to
get past Saturday, should they make
it that far, Martinelli will have all
three McConnell brothers back
next season along with six others.
(continued on next page
Nnemkadi Ogwumike was named
the Pac-10 Player of the Year and
Rosalyn Gold-Onwude was named
co-Defensive Player of the Year on
Thursday.
Three-time selections Appel and
Kayla Pedersen were joined by Ogwumike and Jeanette Pohlen on the
15-player All-Pac-10 team. GoldOnwude was an honorable mention.
“It would have been nice if we
could have three players share the
Player of the Year award,” VanDerveer said. “I don’t think that was
ever discussed, but I am happy one
of three (Appel, Ogwumike or Pedersen) got it.”
Joslyn Tinkle was named allfreshman honorable mention, while
Gold-Onwude was named to the
All-Defensive Team. Pedersen was
honorable mention.
Appel became the eighth Stanford
player to earn All-Pac-10 honors
three times. She broke the Pac-10ís
all-time rebounding record, eclipsing former USC great Lisa Leslie,
also becoming the seventh player
in league history to join the 2,000point, 1,000-rebound club.
Appel ranks 11th in the league
in scoring (14.3) and second in
rebounding (9.9), recording 13
double-doubles this season while
helping the Cardinal clinch its 10th
consecutive regular-season title and
19th overall.
Ogwumike averaged a conference-leading 18.2 points and was
third in rebounding with a 9.4 average.
Ogwumike shoots at a 63.8 percent pace, fourth in the nation. She
has recorded a conference-leading
14 games of 20 or more points.
Pedersen recorded career highs
in scoring (16.7), rebounding (9.0)
and 3-pointers to help Stanford go
undefeated in conference play.
Pohlen leads the Pac-10 with a
1.95 assist-to-turnover ratio and is
second in the conference with 4.54
assists per game. Pohlen leads the
Cardinal with 51 3-pointers and is
shooting 35.9 percent from long
range.
Gold-Onwude helped Stanford
lead the Pac-10 in scoring defense,
limiting opponents to an average of
54.3 points.
The biggest concern remains Appel’s health. VanDerveer indicated
she would play sparingly, if at all,
should there be a chance of hurting
the foot any further.
“Jayne is very important to our
success,” VanDerveer said. “We
will have to wait and see what she’s
able to do. At the same time, I liked
the way ‘Neka and Kayla took the
challenge and stepped up against
Cal.”
Stanford is built upon team chemistry as much as it is on the talented
players that make up the roster. The
Cardinal might do just fine without
Appel this weekend, but it wouldn’t
go too far into the NCAA tournament without her.
Stanford has stumbled a few times
when it had to make do without one
of its guards or when one or more of
its post players was in foul trouble.
Appel has the ability to keep the
Cardinal focused and the opposition
honest. Her leadership is as vital as
her playing ability.
Either Arizona (13-16) or Washington State (8-21) would enter Friday’s contest with much to lose.
The Wildcats enter the tournament on a five-game losing streak
after a stretch of four wins in five
games over the first half of February, while the Cougars, after dropping 12 of its first 13 Pac-10 games,
have impressive victories over USC
and Oregon over its final five regular-season games.
“We have to be focused no matter who we play,” VanDerveer said.
“Hopefully we will have Jayne.”N
Stanford’s Fields on All-Pac-10
Green earns a spot on the all-conference second team
T
here was no question Stanford’s most valuable player
this men’s basketball season was senior Landry Fields.
His consistency of performance
both on the court and in the locker room was a major reason why
he was recognized as a first team
selection on the All-Pac-10 team
announced Monday. Sophomore
Jeremy Green earned a spot on
the second team.
Fields averaged 7.1 points and
3.7 rebounds over his first three
years, playing in the shadows of
Brook and Robin Lopez and then
a senior class that included Anthony Goods and Mitch Johnson.
This season belonged to Fields.
He produced one of the most consistent seasons in school history.
Fields ranks ninth in the nation
in scoring at 22.2 points per game
after becoming the first Stanford
player to lead the Pac-10 in that
category since Casey Jacobsen in
2001-02.
In addition to leading all
conference players in 20-point
games (20), double-doubles (12)
and minutes played (36.1 per
game), Fields ranked second in
the league in rebounding (8.7 per
game). Fields is one of five players in school history to score more
than 600 points in a single season.
He has 667 points this year, third
on the all-time single-season list
behind only Adam Keefe, who
scored over 700 points twice.
Fields has scored in doublefigures in every game this year,
becoming the first Stanford player to accomplish that feat since
Keefe in 1991-92 (29 games).
Green was an All-Freshmen
team pick last year and continued
his emergence as one of the Pac10’s premier players this year.
Green averaged 16.9 points per
game this year, a total that ranks
second on the team and sixth-best
among Pac-10 players. Green’s
scoring average this year is 10
points better than last year’s 6.4
points per game clip as a rookie.
Green, who leads the Pac-10 in
three-pointers made (90) while
ranking 21st nationally in threepoint field goals made per game
(3.0), also broke Casey Jacobsen’s
record for three-pointers made in
a single season when he knocked
down two triples against Arizona
on Feb. 27.N
-- Rick Eymer
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Sports
Local swimmers star while helping PASA
win team title at Southern Sectionals
by Keith Peters
alo Alto High sophomore Jasmine Tosky put on a remarkable, record-breaking show at
the U.S. Swimming Southern Sectionals that concluded Sunday night
in College Station, Texas. All Tosky
did was win six individual events
and help her Palo Alto Stanford
Aquatics team win the overall team
championship with 841 points.
More than 800 swimmers competed. PASA brought 35 athletes to
the meet. Tosky won the women’s
high-point award while teammate
Tom Kremer, from Sacred Heart
Prep, was the men’s high-point winner.
“While Jasmine and Tom will
get a lot of recognition for their accomplishments at this meet, I really
feel that it was truly a team effort,”
said Tony Batis, one of PASA’s head
coaches. “We had young kids who
swam on our girls ‘C’ relays that really stepped up and scored points for
us. We had swimmers make breakthroughs and make new national
or junior national standards for the
first time. We had two strong swimmers who were third respectively in
the women’s (Maddy Schaefer) and
men’s (Adam Hinshaw) high point
standings.
“We were represented by kids
from over 10 high schools around
the area and nearly every one of
them contributed to our team effort.
I, personally, was most pleased with
the fact that we could take 35 kids
deep into the heart of a swimming
hotbed (Texas) compete against
some of the top teams in the Midwest/South and come out with a
team victory. It says to me that West
Coast swimming is not dead and
still very competitive.”
While PASA received plenty of
standout efforts, the most acknowledged came from Tosky. Her biggest night of the four-day meet was
Saturday, where the 15-year-old had
P
Kyle Terada
Jasmine Tosky
a breakthrough evening with three
victories all in meet-records.
Tosky opened up the evening with
a time of 1:46.07 to win the women’s
200-yard free. That swim eclipsed
Lily Moldenhauer’s meet record of
1:46.77 set back in 2009.
Tosky then shot down another
Moldenhauer meet record with the
former recordholder in the pool.
Tosky captured the 100 fly in 52.84
to beat Moldenhauer’s 2009 record
of 53.19. Tosky’s time ranks her third
on the girls’ 15-16 all-time list. The
time also set a 15-16 Pacific record,
breaking Natalie Coughlin’s mark
and just missing the national agegroup record (52.61) by Katie Hoff.
Tosky completed an incredible
triple with another meet record,
this time in the women’s 400 IM.
Tosky clocked a 4:11.01 to shatter
the 4:16.27 set by Spindrift Beck in
2007.
On Sunday night, Tosky turned in
another meet record with a 1:57.46
victory in the 200 IM. That swim
smashed Beck’s 2007 mark of
1:59.66. Tosky returned in the 100
breast and won that in 1:01.95. She
also added a third place in the 100
back of 54.83.
Tosky got her first victory on Fri-
day night as she blew away the meet
record with a sizzling 1:56.29 in the
200 fly. The old mark was 1:58.38
by Moldenhauer last year.
Also on Friday, Tosky finished
third in the 500 free (4:44.05). The
top three finishers surpassed the old
meet record of 4:45.87.
Tosky also teamed with Schaefer,
Julia Ama and Jessica Bergman to
set a national record (girls 15-18) of
3:19.81 in the 400-yard free relay.
Shaefer also had a big meet. She
set a meet record while winning the
100 free in 48.90. That lowered the
previous mark of 49.01 set last year
by Moldenhauer, who lowered a
national high school public record
earlier this year. The time also was
a Pacific record.
Schaefer earned her second podium with a 22.49 victory in the 50
free. She just missed the national record of 22.39 set by Amanda Weir.
Schaefer did break a seven-year-old
meet record, a 23.05 set by Brooke
Bishop back in 2003. Bergman
grabbed third in 23.45.
Schaefer also finished second in
100 back (54.28) and took third in
the 100 fly (54.51).
In other PASA highlights: Hinshaw was second in the men’s 500
free (4:24.65), second in the 1,000
free (9:06.70) and second in the
1,650 free (15:20.45). He set 15-16
Pacific records in the 1,000 and
1,650 frees. Alicia Grima picked
up third in the women’s 200 IM
(2:03.92); and Ally Howe set a girls
13-14 Pacific record in the 100 back
(55.13), breaking another Coughlin
mark.
Kremer was as busy as Tosky as he
took second in the 200 IM (1:49.80),
third in the 100 back (49.65), second
in the 200 free (1:37.99), second in
the 200 fly (1:48.36), fourth in the
1,000 free (9:16.95) and fourth in
the 500 free (4:26.86). He set a 1516 Pacific record in the 200 IM.N
New coach has Paly baseball off to winning start
I
t was a homecoming of sorts for
Palo Alto’s first-year baseball
coach Erick Raich, who made
a splashy debut in the SCVAL De
Anza Division with a 16-4 thumping of visiting Saratoga in a season
opener Wednesday. Raich finished
up a standout prep career at Saratoga
High in 2000, helping the Falcons
win a CCS title in 1999.
While Raich admitted it felt a little
strange to be facing his old team, he
was more focused on getting his new
club off to a good start.
“The first year (of coaching a new
team) is the toughest, with all the expectations,” Raich said. “But, we’re
ahead of schedule.”
The Vikings (1-0, 5-2), who will
complete their home-and-home series
at Saratoga on Friday, have played a
tough preseason schedule that included losses to Wilcox and Mitty
and victories over Scotts Valley and
Monterey — all perennial CCS contenders.
Saratoga certainly didn’t measure
up with those teams as Paly grabbed
a 14-1 lead after just two innings. Joc
Pederson had three hits while fellow
senior Scott Witte drove in three runs.
Conor Raftery, Drake Swezey, Will
Glazier and Wade Hauser all had two
RBI as Paly pounded out 14 hits.
Menlo School also is off to a solid
start (4-1) after dominating St. Ignatius on Tuesday, 9-1, in nonleague action. Jake Batchelder (2-0) threw six
innings of one-run ball while while
out six. Fellow sophomore Dylan
Mayer had two hits and drove in four
runs.
Boys’ tennis
Defending CCS and NorCal champion Menlo looks to be in fine shape
to possibly repeat those efforts after
two impressive victories this week.
With freshmen Richard Pham and
Andrew Ball posting solid wins at
No. 1 and 2 singles, the Knights remained perfect with a 7-0 whitewash
of host Los Gatos in a nonleague
match on Wednesday. Pham posted a
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6-4, 6-4 triumph while Ball won easily, 6-3, 6-2. Sophomore Justin Chan
blanked his opponent at No. 3 while
senior Patrick Chase won at No. 4 in
straight sets as the Knights improved
to 5-0.
On Tuesday, Menlo perhaps took
control of the West Bay Athletic
League with a 7-0 romp over visiting Harker, which earlier had beaten
Sacred Heart Prep. Menlo will host
SHP next Tuesday.
While Menlo looks to be a runaway winner in the WBAL, MenloAtherton could be that team in the
PAL Bay Division
The Bears are off to a 3-0 start in
league play following a 5-2 win over
host Burlingame on Tuesday. Burlingame is expected to challenge for
the league title this season.
M-A rode a sweep of the doubles to
its victory. The teams of Zeke BrownMatt Giordano, Jess and Christian
Perkins, plus Matt Menninger and
Avi Shah provided key points for the
triumph.
ATHLETES OF THE WEEK
Jenna McLoughlin
Reed McConnell
Pinewood School
Sacred Heart Prep
The junior center scored
20 points and grabbed 16
rebounds with two steals in
two CCS Division V basketball victories, including 15
points and seven rebounds
to spark the Panthers to past
Castilleja in the title game.
The junior had 12 points, five
assists, three rebounds and
the game-winning basket in
a 55-54 semifinal win before
pouring in 24 points with
four rebounds in a 54-45 win
over No. 1 Palma in the CCS
Division IV title game.
Honorable mention
Sammy Albanese
Castilleja softball
Maggie Brown
Menlo lacrosse
Victoria Fakalata*
Menlo-Atherton basketball
Kelsey Morehead*
Pinewood basketball
Mila Sheeline
Menlo lacrosse
Natasha von Kaeppler
Ty Cobb
Sacred Heart Prep basketball
Danny Diekroeger*
Menlo baseball
Nicky Hu
Palo Alto tennis
Max Lippe*
Pinewood basketball
Cole McConnell
Sacred Heart Prep basketball
Will McConnell*
Castilleja basketball
Sacred Heart Prep basketball
* previous winner
To see video interviews of the Athletes of the Week, go to www.PASportsOnline.com
NorCal basketball
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could win the state title.
While the Gators aren’t favored
to get past Saturday, should they
make it that far, Martinelli will have
all three McConnell brothers back
next season along with six others.
The team loses only starter (Cobb)
among its seniors. The other is Spencer Rosekrans.
The Pinewood boys, meanwhile,
will lose only two seniors off this
team, one of which is a big one —
6-6 Max Lippe. He’s one reason why
the No. 8 Panthers (20-7) advanced
to the second round on Thursday
night.
Lippe shook off a scoreless first
quarter and scored 23 of his 27 points
in the second half to lead the Panthers to a 55-42 victory over visiting
Bradshaw Christian (Sacramento) in
the opening round of the Division V
playoffs on Tuesday night.
Lippe added 16 rebounds as Pinewood bounced back from its loss on
Saturday in the CCS championship
game. That 45-43 loss to St. FrancisCentral Coast Catholic proved very
costly as the Sharks received the No.
2 seed in NorCals and a favorable
path to the finals.
Pinewood sophomore Dante
Fraioli added 11 points and two
while junior Aaron Daines had six
assists. His defense was sparkling as
he held Bradshaw Christian scoring
leader JJ Mina to a season-low four
points.
Bradshaw held a 36-35 lead at the
end of three quarters but Pinewood
held Bradshaw to 3-of-11 shooting
in the fourth quarter as Pinewood
went on a roll to score 20 points in
the final period.
Girls’ Division I
Senior Victoria Fakalata scored 24
points and added nine rebounds but
it wasn’t enough as Menlo-Atherton
saw its season end in a 52-44 loss
to Lowell in a first-round game at
Kezar Pavilion in San Francisco on
Tuesday.
The No. 12-seeded Bears (1517) got to within 43-42 with three
minutes to play, but Lowell ran off a
string of unanswered points to pull
away. Sophomore Tennyson Jellins
finished with nine points and six rebounds for M-A.N
(Tim Goode contributed to this
story)
For results of Thursday’s NorCal
games, go to www.pasportsonline.com
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AMERICAN
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Armadillo Willy’s 941-2922
Peking Duck 856-3338
1031 N. San Antonio Rd., Los Altos
2310 El Camino Real, Palo Alto
Range: $5.00-13.00
We also deliver.
Hobee’s 856-6124
Su Hong – Menlo Park
4224 El Camino Real, Palo Alto
Dining Phone: 323–6852
Also at Town & Country Village,
To Go: 322–4631
Palo Alto 327-4111
Winner, Palo Alto Weekly “Best Of”
Spot A Pizza 324-3131
115 Hamilton Ave, Palo Alto
Burmese
Trader Vic’s 849-9800
4269 El Camino Real, Palo Alto
Dinner Mon-Thurs 5-10pm; Fri-Sat 5-11pm;
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Lounge open nightly
Burmese & Chinese Cuisine
129 Lytton, Downtown Palo Alto
3950 Middlefield Rd., Palo Alto
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POLYNESIAN
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Pizzeria
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(650) 494-7391
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Green Elephant Gourmet
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Happy Hour Mon-Fri 4-6 pm
SEAFOOD
Cook’s Seafood 325-0604
751 El Camino Real, Menlo Park
Janta Indian Restaurant 462-5903
Seafood Dinners from
Dine-In, Take-Out, Local Delivery-Catering
369 Lytton Ave., Downtown Palo Alto
$6.95 to $10.95
CHINESE
Lunch Buffet M-F; Organic Veggies
Chef Chu’s (650) 948-2696
ITALIAN
Open 7 days a week serving breakfast,
1067 N. San Antonio Road
1390 Pear Ave.,
Mountain View
(650) 254-1120
Spalti Ristorante 327-9390
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on the corner of El Camino, Los Altos
417 California Ave, Palo Alto
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Jing Jing 328-6885
Pizzeria Venti 650-254-1120
THAI
443 Emerson St., Palo Alto
1390 Pear Ave, Mountain View
Thaiphoon Restaurant 323-7700
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543 Emerson St., Palo Alto
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www.thaiphoonrestaurant.com
Ming’s 856-7700
1700 Embarcadero East, Palo Alto
www.mings.com
New Tung Kee Noodle House
520 Showers Dr., MV in San Antonio Ctr.
Fuki Sushi 494-9383
4119 El Camino Real, Palo Alto
Scott’s Seafood 323-1555
#1 Town & Country Village, Palo Alto
Best Thai Restaurant in Palo Alto
3 Years in a Row, 2006-2007-2008
STEAKHOUSE
Open 7 days a Week
Sundance the Steakhouse 321-6798
MEXICAN
1921 El Camino Real, Palo Alto
Lunch: Mon-Fri 11:30 am-2:00pm
Voted MV Voice Best ‘01, ‘02, ‘03 & ‘04
Palo Alto Sol 328-8840
Dinner: Mon-Thu 5:00-10:00pm
Prices start at $4.75
408 California Ave, Palo Alto
Fri-Sat 5:00-10:30pm, Sun 5:00-9:00pm
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